Requested by: Georgia, Parliament

Recommended Measures:
In order to meet the recommendation “to provide for a judicial appeal” against the decisions by the HCoJ not to select a candidate judge, it is further necessary: - To provide for the disclosure, together with the vote and the reasoning, the identity of the member of the HCoJ who cast the vote; - To allow a second and final appeal to the Qualifications Chamber of the Supreme Court against the second decision of the HCoJ. And recommendation made in the Urgent Opinion (2019) is still outstanding: - An anti-deadlock mechanism is needed for situations in which candidates have received the necessary number of votes to be nominated to the second ballot, but not 2/3rd of the required votes, if this requirement is kept.

Measures taken: The draft Amendments were adopted at their third and final reading on 30 September 2020.