A panel of five judges will meet in Strasbourg on 9 May to decide whether the al-Qaida linked cleric's 11th-hour appeal was lodged in time and should be heard by the European court of human rights grand chamber.
A Council of Europe spokesman said, however, that while they are to consider the issue of whether the appeal application was out of time, it would not necessarily mean that a final decision would be announced next week.
The last-minute application by Qatada's lawyers sparked a furious row as it halted the deportation of the radical Islamist cleric back to Jordan less than 24 hours after it had been ordered by the home secretary, Theresa May.
She ordered Qatada's arrest and detention on Tuesday 16 April, in the firm belief that the three-month deadline for appeals to be lodged against the original Strasbourg ruling on the case on 17 January had passed at midnight on Monday.
But it emerged on Wednesday 17 April that Qatada's lawyers had lodged an 11th-hour appeal on Tuesday night, halting moves by the Home Office to press ahead with the deportation proceedings.
Qatada, who has spent more than six years in detention in Britain without facing trial, has been in custody in Belmarsh prison, London, since the most recent attempt to deport him was blocked. His lawyers have not so far made a renewed application for bail.
