The Head of the Doctoral School, at the request of the doctoral student with the opinion of the doctoral thesis supervisor(s) or the doctoral thesis supervisor and assistant thesis supervisor, after consultation with the competent head of the educational discipline, may extend the deadline for the submission of the doctoral thesis for a total period not exceeding two years.

An extension of the time limit for the submission of the doctoral thesis shall be granted only for the period anticipated for the submission of the doctoral thesis and may be repeated for a total period not exceeding two years.

The extension of the deadline for the submission of the dissertation implies an extension of training at the Doctoral School, i.e. the doctoral student maintains all the rights of a doctoral student at the Doctoral School. At the same time, according to Article 209, paragraph 2 of the Law on Higher Education and Science, “the total period of receiving a doctoral scholarship at Doctoral Schools may not exceed 4 years”. So, if a doctoral student has already received a doctoral scholarship for 4 years, he or she will not receive a scholarship during the extension.