Legal texts need to be drafted clearly and comprehensibly in order to avoid varieties of interpretation. Legal rules cannot be ambiguous or unclear, but they should be comprehended clearly and easily. These are sine qua non for legal certainty and legal security, which are irrevocable conditions of the rule of law and principles of rules of the administrative law. The criteria for application to the position of associate professor constitute a legal text, as one of the general regulatory procedures of the administration. The existing criteria prioritize the quantity rather than the quality of academic research. The worst is that the criteria are formulated in a complicated and ambiguous way. The requirements expected from candidates are formulated very shortly without further and detailed explanations. To put it shortly, the criteria for application to the position of associate professor must be redesigned and reformulated to ensure that people that contribute more to science gets promoted more properly.