The Programme Council is the professional body of the Academy and it is comprised of 15 members appointed by the Steering Committee from the ranks of judges and prosecutors, other experts and judicial and prosecutorial staff. At least five members of the Programme Council are judges, at least three of them prosecutors, of whom one member shall be proposed by the Judges’ Association and Prosecutors’ Association, respectively, and one member shall be from the ranks of the judicial and prosecutorial staff.
Competences of the Judicial Academy’s Programme Council: