[1] The judges elected, Anthony Carmona of Trinidad and Tobago, Miriam Defensor Santiago of the Philippines, Chile Eboe-Osuji of Nigeria, Robert Fremr of the Czech Republic, Olga Venecia Herrera Carbuccia of the Dominican Republic and Howard Morrison of the United Kingdom, took office on 11 March 2012.
On 13 October 2011, the Bureau of the ASP notified States Parties of the application of Paragraph 20 (b) of Resolution ICC-ASP/3/Res.6.
The membership of the Maldives as the 17th Asian ICC member state triggered an increase in the corresponding minimum voting requirement.
Given the nominations (already taking into account the withdrawal of Ajmi Bel Haj Hamouda which did not change the result, however), the initial minimum voting requirements were as follows:[7] Because of the importance of qualified and impartial judges, NGOs have taken a particular interest in the ICC judges election.
[9] In December 2010, the Coalition established an Independent Panel on International Criminal Court Judicial Elections.
The panel was to "issue a report containing an assessment of each judicial candidate as 'Qualified' or 'Not Qualified' after the closing of the nomination period and in advance of the December 2011 elections.
All nominees except for Ajmi Bel Haj Hamouda, Javier Laynez Potisek, George A. Serghides and Jorge Antonio Urbina Ortega were assessed as qualified.
After the second ballot, the minimum voting requirement for Eastern European States dropped to zero, as did the one for male candidates.