1The School of Magistrates shall offer initial training for legal advisors and legal assistants, and at least every three years for chancellors.

2The High Judicial Council shall, after having received the opinion of the chairpersons of the courts, determine the estimated number of vacancies for legal advisors and legal assistants for the upcoming year, and for chancellors for the three upcoming years.

3The School of Magistrates shall notify interested candidates to apply for the initial training through notifications posted at all courts, on the oficial websites of the courts, the High Judicial Council and the School of Magistrates.

4The High Judicial Council has a task to:

aVerify whether the candidates meet the general and specific criteria for the position;

bDefine the list of candidates eligible to participate in the admission exam.

5The School of Magistrates:

aConducts the admission exam;

bEvaluates and publishes the results of the admission exam;

cDetermines the candidates with the highest scores who shall be admitted to the initial training programme.

çOrganizes and delivers the initial training program.

6The candidates admitted for the initial training shall be obliged to regularly attend the programme and to abide by regulations of the School of Magistrates.

7Upon conclusion of the initial training, the School of Magistrates will conduct the final exam. Candidates who receive not less than 70 percent of the total scores in the final exam shall be considered to have successfully passed the initial training course.

8The School of Magistrate shall list the successful candidates in the sense of paragraph 7 of this Article, according to the scores received. The list of successful candidates shall be approved by the School of Magistrates and published on the official website of the School of Magistrates and submitted to the High Judicial Council.

9The High Judicial Council shall establish more detailed rules on how to estimate the number of candidates to be admitted to the initial training course and how to verify the candidates to be admitted to the admission exam.

10The School of Magistrates shall establish more detailed rules on the procedure and evaluation of the admission exam and the final exam.

11The judicial civil servant in the Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime Specialized Courts shall also meet the additional requirements and criteria provided for in the Law “On the Organization and Functioning of Institutions for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime in the Republic of Albania”.