Report on the Work of the IJPC

In November 2009, Judge Jan Erik Oja, from Sweden, and retired Judge Dennis Luebke, fromthe United States, replaced two of the original commission members. Each of them had priorexperience in Kosovo.Phase II interviews began as scheduled on November 2 nd and continued through November 26 th .The remaining Phase II interviews were delayed until January due to the replacement of twomore of the original international Commissioners. Anette Milk, a senior prosecutor fromGermany, and Horst Proetel, a retired German Judge, both of whom had extensive priorexperience in Kosovo, joined the Commission.Interviews for Phase II positions resumed on January 11 and continued through February 25. Bythat date, interviews were completed for District Court and District prosecutor positions in bothPristina and Mitrovica, and for the Commercial Court and the High Court for Minor Offences.Interviews for Phase II positions in Gjilan, Peja and Prizren resumed on March 8, and continuedthrough April 27.C. New national CommissionersAD 2008/2 provides for a gradual increase in the number of Commissioners from fiveCommissioners in Phase I, to eight Commissioners in Phase II, and ten Commissioners in PhaseIII.The additional Commissioners were required to be judges or prosecutors selected from amongthose appointed in the immediately preceding phase of the appointment process.On March 8, 2010, the President of Kosovo appointed three new members to the Commission:Enver Peci and Valdete Daka, newly appointed Judges on the Supreme Court, and Sevdije GashiMorina, newly appointed Deputy Chief Special Prosecutor. The three new nationalCommissioners were promptly integrated into the work of the Commission.D. Phase II recommendations and appointmentsPlenary sessions of the Commission were held in early April. On April 14, IJPC transmitted toKJC the names of 48 candidates who were recommended for appointment to District Court andDistrict prosecutor positions in Pristina and Mitrovica, and for positions on the CommercialCourt and High Court for Minor Offences. KJC forwarded most of those names to the Office ofthe President on April 28 th . The 14 candidates recommended by IJPC for District level positionsin Mitrovica were appointed by the President at a ceremony held on May 14, 2010.By that date, in part because some candidates were alternatively being recommended for posts ondifferent courts or in different locations, and also because the Commission had by thencompleted interviews for all District level positions, the President deferred action on theremaining Phase II appointments until recommendations for all of the remaining Phase IIpositions had been transmitted to his office.12Funded by the European Union and the Government of USA.