1The recruitment of other judicial civil servants into the judicial civil service is done through an open competition as set out in this Article.

2Upon completion of the lateral transfer and promotion procedure, in the sense of Article 57 of this Law, the High Judicial Council, no later than three weeks from the receipt of notification on a vacant position, shall announce the open competition on the oficial internet website of the High Judicial Council and request the chancellors to announce it on the oficial website of the court.

3The notification shall contain information on the vacant position, the deadline for submission of application, the accompanying documentation, application procedure and the place where the application and the documentation have to be submitted. The deadline for application may not be less than two weeks from the date of notification.

4The competition consists of two phases:

aPreliminary screening, whether the candidates meet the general and special requirements, as published in the announcement;

bEvaluation of the candidates.

5The preliminary screening is made by the chancellor, while the evaluation of the candidates is done by the Admission Committee at the court.

6The Admission Committee shall rank the successful candidates with the highest scores, who have received more than 70 per cent of the total evaluation points, in the list of successful candidates, hereinafter referred to as “the list of candidates”.

7The High Judicial Council shall approve by decision the detailed rules on the preliminary screening, the establishment, composition and the competences of the Admission Committee, including the evaluation procedures.