Report on the Work of the IJPC

Three of the international members of the PAU had previously worked on a similar judicialappointment project in Bosnia from 2002 – 2004.The duties of the PAU included: verifying that applicants met all necessary legal criteria;gathering and assessing statistical data and other job-performance information on applicants;obtaining comments about each applicant from professional colleagues and former employers;securing information from local institutions regarding each applicant’s compliance with propertylaws and court rulings on property claims; obtaining and evaluating reports from the Office ofDisciplinary Counsel regarding alleged misconduct by judges and prosecutors.Information gathered and evaluated by the PAU on each of the applicants who were invited tointerview was summarized in an individual, confidential Profile <strong>Report</strong> which was provided tothe Commission’s Evaluation Panel members prior to each applicant’s interview. National PAUofficers attended applicants’ interviews and assisted in the evaluation of the applicant’s writingability and verbal communication skills.6F. Judicial Vetting Unit.National PAU OfficersThe primary responsibility of the Judicial Vetting Unit (JVU) was to gather personal backgroundinformation about each candidate, to examine and evaluate that information, and to report itsfindings to the Commission.JVU consisted of ten international investigators and an equal number of Kosovar investigators.JVU officers worked in two-person teams consisting of one international and one nationalofficer. As the result of efforts undertaken by JVU early in the project, IJPC entered intoMemorandums of Understanding with local and international institutions (such as Interpol, theKosovo Anti-Corruption Agency, Kosovo Property Agency and the Kosovo Police Service)which allowed IJPC to solicit and obtain information possessed by those agencies about eachcandidate. MOU’s were entered into with some 31 different institutions and agencies.Funded by the European Union and the Government of USA.