According to Article 41 of the DIPR Act, the CPD is composed of nine members, at least four of whom are lawyers.
The National Assembly shall elect five of the members, including the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Commission, and the President of the Republic of Bulgaria shall appoint four members of the Commission.
Their mandate is 5 years. ZZDiskr. does not provide for a certain rotation of the members of the CPC, similar to that provided for the members of the Constitutional Court, who are renewed in succession rather than in their entirety.
The Commission examines specific disputes in five three-member standing panels, divided according to the grounds on which they specialise; in five-member extended panels (cases of multiple discrimination), which rule on more than one ground; and in ad hoc panels, which are formed when no ground is explicitly mentioned in the proceedings or when a member of one of the standing panels is the author of a self-referral report on which the panel is working and cannot therefore be a member of it when examining the case.