The European Medicines Agency, in London | Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images Brussels releases criteria to host EU agencies after Brexit Countries have until July 31 to submit applications.

Countries bidding to host the European Medicines Agency and the European Banking Authority have until July 31 to submit their entries, according to a European Commission document.

In details setting out the criteria to host the two prized U.K.-based agencies after Brexit, the document states that no country can host both agencies.

To select the winner, there will be repeated rounds of voting resulting in a final of two countries. The winning entry will need a majority of votes from fellow EU members. The final decision is anticipated by October at the latest.

The document, obtained by the Financial Times and authored by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU President Donald Tusk, noted the “desirability of geographical spread of the agencies,” alluding to the fact that Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Cyprus and Slovakia currently host none of the EU’s bodies.

However, the presidents noted this principle of placing agencies, endorsed in 2003, only related to the establishment of new, as opposed to existing, ones.

Minimizing disruption of services is “vital”; winning cities must ensure “business continuity” at the time of Brexit, the document said.

Providing sufficient housing, hotel accommodation and schooling all feature prominently. The EMA will require 30,000 hotel nights per year and the EBA will need 9,000, the FT reported.

The EMA staff will require international school places for 648 children.

Regarding the EMA, the winner must be able to house its off-site archive of 34,000 boxes.