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Article 115
 

1. The ECAC shall be a permanent independent body competent to adjudicate complaints and
permitted appeals concerning the electoral process as established in this law and electoral rules.



2. The Judicial Council of Kosovo appoints the chairperson of the ECAC, from among the
judges of the Supreme Court, while the members are appointed from among the judges of the
Court of Appeal. The Judicial Council of Kosovo, in accordance with the nature of the work of
the ECAC, approves a special act for the specific conditions and experience of the judges who
can be appointed to the ECAC.



3. The ECAC members shall serve for a renewable term of 4 (four) years.



4. In case the position of the chairperson or a member remains vacant, the Judicial Council of
Kosovo appoints a person to that position within thirty (30) days.



5. ECAC submits an Annual Report to the Judicial Council of Kosovo, at the latest on March 1
of the following year after holding the elections and after its review, the same is published. The
form, structure and content of the report is determined in advance by the Judicial Council of
Kosovo.


6. In addition to the report from paragraph 5 of this Article, the Judicial Council of Kosovo, within
the annual report related to the justice system that it sends to the Assembly of the Republic of
Kosovo, as defined in paragraph 8 of Article 108 of the Constitution, in a separate chapter, it
also summarizes the work of ECAC for the year in which the elections were held.



7. For the performance of their duties, the chairperson and members of the ECAC are responsible
before the Judicial Council of Kosovo.