A new important document: Notice amending the notice of open competition has been published concerning: Dutch-language (NL) lawyer-linguists English-language (EN) lawyer-linguists Lithuanian-language (LT) lawyer-linguists Portuguese-language (PT) lawyer-linguists Spanish-language (ES) lawyer-linguists Slovak-language (SK) lawyer-linguists

As announced on our website in the context of CAST selection procedures, the last testing sessions with EPSO’s current contractor are taking place in March 2024. Other testing sessions in 2024, with a new contractor, for CAST and for ongoing open competitions, will be announced as soon as available. Offering a better online testing experience for all candidates remains EPSO’s priority. Those dates will be published on EPSO’s website and social media accounts, as well as via the candidates’ individual EPSO Accounts, as relevant.

The application period for the competition for lawyer-linguists for the Court of Justice of the EU closed on 24 October 2023. We would like to inform candidates that the tests will not take place before February 2024 at the earliest. We will update the competition webpage as soon as more information is available.

The testing period for this competition is postponed to 2024. EPSO does not yet know the dates of the testing sessions. This will be announced in due time.

About the competition: this competition is aimed at constituting a reserve list of English-language lawyer-linguists who have a perfect command of English (the language of their legal studies and/or qualifications), and an adequate knowledge of the national law, legal system and legal terminology in English of one of the English-speaking EU Member States or former Member States with an English-language legal system. The needs of the recruiting service: to ensure that the needs of the recruiting service concerned are adequately met, the eligibility conditions of this competition must cover potential candidates with law degrees and/or qualifications from all the national legal systems fitting the criteria listed above. In view of the above, EPSO is happy to inform you that legal qualifications delivered by the Maltese authorities, as well as UK legal qualifications awarded until 31 December 2020, are also eligible for this competition, as regards English-language (EN) lawyer-linguists The current notice of competition ( EUR-Lex - C:2023:324A:TOC - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)) will be duly amended and will be made available in the coming days on the competition’s dedicated webpage (see link above). Important: in view of this amendment, the application deadline for this competition is now changed to 24 October 2023 at midday (12:00) Luxembourg time. This will give you more time to prepare your application, but, as always, do not wait until the last minute. This change will also affect our operational calendar. The publication of the invitation letter for the booking period for tests will be sent out by EPSO only on 30 October. Booking will start already on 31 October. We apologise for the inconvenience. Please check your EPSO account regularly in the coming days to stay informed.