diff --git a/scipost_django/ethics/templates/ethics/_hx_submission_ethics.html b/scipost_django/ethics/templates/ethics/_hx_submission_ethics.html
index 7645e709d4811f996698464cdace89b37fc785d2..c5a4e2da4463cf0de4c48837920e8b7b5e37130c 100644
--- a/scipost_django/ethics/templates/ethics/_hx_submission_ethics.html
+++ b/scipost_django/ethics/templates/ethics/_hx_submission_ethics.html
@@ -1,47 +1,53 @@
 <div class="row">
   <div class="col">
+
     {% if clearance %}
       <div class="bg-white d-inline-flex p-2">
-	<span class="text-success">
-	  {% include "bi/check-square-fill.html" %}
-	  &nbsp;You are free of competing interests
-	</span>
-	<a class="text-danger ms-4"
-	   hx-get="{% url 'ethics:_hx_submission_clearance_revoke' identifier_w_vn_nr=submission.preprint.identifier_w_vn_nr %}"
-	   hx-target="#submission-{{ submission.pk }}-appraisal"
-	>{% include "bi/trash-fill.html" %}&nbsp;<em>Revoke this declaration</em></a>
+        <span class="text-success">
+ 
+          {% include "bi/check-square-fill.html" %}
+          &nbsp;You are free of competing interests
+        </span>
+        <a class="text-danger ms-4"
+           hx-get="{% url 'ethics:_hx_submission_clearance_revoke' identifier_w_vn_nr=submission.preprint.identifier_w_vn_nr %}"
+           hx-target="#submission-{{ submission.pk }}-appraisal">
+          {% include "bi/trash-fill.html" %}
+        &nbsp;<em>Revoke this declaration</em></a>
       </div>
     {% else %}
       <div class="row border border-danger mb-0 p-2">
-	<div class="mb-1">
-	  Do you have any competing interest (aka conflict of interest)
-	  with regards to this Submission?
-	</div>
-	<div class="row mb-0">
-	  <div class="col">
-	    <a class="btn btn-sm btn-success text-white my-auto"
-	       hx-get="{% url 'ethics:_hx_submission_clearance_assert' identifier_w_vn_nr=submission.preprint.identifier_w_vn_nr %}"
-	       hx-target="#submission-{{ submission.pk }}-appraisal"
-	       hx-confirm="Confirm that you have no competing interest with regards to this Submission?"
-	    >
-	      I have no competing interest
-	    </a>
-	  </div>
-	  <div class="col">
-	    <a class="btn btn-sm btn-danger text-white my-auto"
-	       hx-get="{% url 'ethics:_hx_submission_competing_interest_form' identifier_w_vn_nr=submission.preprint.identifier_w_vn_nr %}"
-	       hx-target="#submission-{{ submission.pk }}-ethics"
-	    >
-	      I have a competing interest
-	    </a>
-	  </div>
-	</div>
+	
+        <div class="col-8 d-flex flex-column justify-content-between">
+          <div>
+            Do you have any competing interest (as per the	<a href="{% url 'scipost:EdCol_by-laws' %}"><span class="text-primary">By-laws</span></a> 3.5) with regards to this Submission?
+            If so, please kindly declare it!
+          </div>
+          <div class="text-muted">Keep in mind this includes co-authorship of any paper in the last 5 years.</div>
+        </div>
+	
+        <div class="col border-start border-secondary">
+          <div class="row mb-0">
+            <div class="col">
+              <a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary text-white my-1 w-100"
+                 hx-get="{% url 'ethics:_hx_submission_clearance_assert' identifier_w_vn_nr=submission.preprint.identifier_w_vn_nr %}"
+                 hx-target="#submission-{{ submission.pk }}-appraisal"
+                 hx-confirm="Are you sure that you have carefully read the by-laws (3.5), that you know what consists a competing interest, and that you don't have any with regards to this Submission?">No competing interests</a>
+ 
+              <div class="col">
+                <a class="btn btn-sm btn-secondary my-1 w-100"
+                   hx-get="{% url 'ethics:_hx_submission_competing_interest_form' identifier_w_vn_nr=submission.preprint.identifier_w_vn_nr %}"
+                   hx-target="#submission-{{ submission.pk }}-ethics">Declare competing interest</a>
+              </div>
+            </div>
+          </div>
+ 
+	
+        </div>
       </div>
     {% endif %}
+
   </div>
 </div>
 
 <div id="submission-{{ submission.pk }}-competing-interest-form"
-     class="col-lg-12"
->
-</div>
+     class="col-lg-12"></div>