This competition does not have a notice yet. EPSO's planner of upcoming selection procedures lists EPSO/AD/432/26, a competition for lawyer-linguists and legal revisers at grade AD 7, covering eight languages, for the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission. Provisional publication is 4 November 2026, with a provisional application deadline of 8 December 2026. EPSO marks both dates with an asterisk and the words “dates to be confirmed”.
What the planner states
| Item | What EPSO publishes |
|---|---|
| Reference | EPSO/AD/432/26 |
| Profile | Lawyer-linguists / legal revisers |
| Institutions | European Parliament · Council of the European Union · European Commission |
| Grade | AD 7 |
| Languages | Spanish · Finnish · Irish · Italian · Latvian · Maltese · Portuguese · Swedish |
| Publication | 4 November 2026 (provisional) |
| Application deadline | 8 December 2026 (provisional) |
EPSO's own wording is “Spanish-/ Finnish-/ Irish-/ Italian-/ Latvian-/ Maltese-/ Portuguese-/ Swedish-language lawyer-linguists/legal revisers (AD 7)”. The second half of that title is the part worth noticing, and it is the difference from the competition that opens two weeks earlier.
Two lawyer-linguist competitions, two weeks apart, and they are not the same job
EPSO is running EPSO/AD/431/26 for the Court of Justice from 21 October and this one from 4 November. Both are AD 7, both are lawyer-linguist competitions, and the institutions behind them do different work with legal texts. The Court's lawyer-linguists work on judicial texts — judgments, Opinions of the Advocates General, pleadings — in per-language units in Luxembourg. The legislative institutions' title here adds legal revisers, which points at legislation rather than case law. Exactly what the role covers is for the notice; the 2021 equivalent for these three institutions listed Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg as duty stations, where the Court's competitions are Luxembourg only.
What AD 7 pays
On the salary scale in force since 1 July 2025, AD 7 starts at €7,876.27 a month in basic pay, before allowances and before the duty-station correction coefficient — which is one of the practical differences between a post in Luxembourg, Brussels or Strasbourg. Our pay and benefits guide covers what sits on top of basic pay, and the grade ladder guide covers where AD 7 sits relative to AD 5.
What the notice will decide — and this page will not guess
- What the role is in each of the three institutions, and how “lawyer-linguist” and “legal reviser” divide between them.
- How many successful candidates are sought, per language.
- The eligibility scale — which law degrees qualify, and whether professional experience is required.
- The language regime — which languages may serve as your source languages and at what level, and which language each test is sat in.
- The tests, their marks and their pass marks.
- Whether candidates may enter more than one competition, including the Court's.
- Whether the dates hold. Provisional EPSO dates move.
The reasoning tests are the one thing that does not change
Whatever the notice settles about fields, languages and eligibility, EPSO competitions open with verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning, and they are scored before anything else you wrote is looked at. They are also the only part you can prepare while the notice does not exist.
Start practising → First 25 questions free · no account needed to tryWhat is worth doing before 4 November
Practise the reasoning tests — verbal, numerical and abstract, common to every EPSO competition and marked before anything else. Start with verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning, and read the test-day guide before you sit anything under proctoring.
Work on revision, not only translation. A title that says legal revisers describes work on someone else's text: catching the mistranslation that changes a legal effect, and making a provision read as law in your language. Practising that means taking an existing translation of an EU legal act, comparing it against the original, and marking what you would change and why — a different exercise from translating a text yourself.
Assemble your supporting documents now. Diplomas showing the date of the final award decision, employment certificates with exact start and end dates, and proof of your language knowledge. Recent EPSO competitions check eligibility against the documents you upload rather than against what you declared, so an undocumented year is a lost year. Obtaining a document takes weeks; uploading one takes minutes. Our guide to the supporting-documents check explains how that verification actually runs.
The rest of the competition calendar
All of these dates are EPSO's provisional ones, published in its planner of upcoming selection procedures and marked by EPSO itself as dates to be confirmed.
| Competition | Grade | Fields or languages | Published | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data management — EPSO/AST/158/26 | AST 3 | Data analytics · librarianship · archives | 6 October* | 11 November* |
| Lawyer-linguists, Court of Justice — EPSO/AD/431/26 | AD 7 | BG · DE · EL · ES · GA · MT · NL · RO | 21 October* | 25 November* |
| Lawyer-linguists / legal revisers — EPSO/AD/432/26 | AD 7 | ES · FI · GA · IT · LV · MT · PT · SV | 4 November* | 8 December* |
| Lawyers — EPSO/AD/433/26 | AD 7 | AI law · criminal law · procurement law · litigation | 9 December* | 20 January* |
The only competition open for applications right now is EPSO/AD/430/26 in AI and cybersecurity, at grade AD 8, which closes at midday on 13 October 2026.
Frequently asked questions
When does EPSO/AD/432/26 open?
EPSO's planner gives a provisional publication date of 4 November 2026 and a provisional application deadline of 8 December 2026. Both are marked by EPSO as dates to be confirmed. No notice of competition has been published yet.
Which languages does it cover?
Eight, according to EPSO's planner: Spanish, Finnish, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Maltese, Portuguese and Swedish. Three of them — Spanish, Irish and Maltese — also appear in EPSO/AD/431/26 for the Court of Justice, which opens two weeks earlier.
How is this different from the Court of Justice competition?
The institutions and the texts differ. EPSO/AD/431/26 recruits for the Court of Justice, whose lawyer-linguists work on judicial texts — judgments, Opinions of the Advocates General and pleadings — in Luxembourg. EPSO/AD/432/26 recruits for the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, and EPSO's title for it adds "legal revisers". The 2021 equivalent for those three institutions listed Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg as duty stations. The precise duties are set by the notice.
Can I apply for both lawyer-linguist competitions?
EPSO's planner does not say, and it is not worth assuming. EPSO competitions frequently restrict candidates to one competition or one field within a notice. Both notices will address it, and the earlier of the two is provisionally published on 21 October 2026.
Every date and language list on this page comes from EPSO's planner of upcoming selection procedures as it stood on 8 September 2026. The AD 7 salary is from the scale in force since 1 July 2025, published in the Official Journal as C/2025/6564. The 2021 duty stations are from EPSO's own competition page for EPSO/AD/384/21, the equivalent series for these three institutions. When the notice of competition is published it becomes the only text that binds, and this page will be rewritten from it.