1. Each political party registered with the CEC as an electoral subject has the right to appoint an observer to the CEAZ, to the VCC and for every table of the Ballot Counting Centre after the registration of the candidate/s for the respective electoral zone or the submission of a multi-name list. If the political parties appear in the elections as a coalition, the right to appoint observers rests solely with the coalition. The candidates of the political parties do not have the right to appoint observers.
2. Albanian and foreign non-governmental organizations, as well as international organizations specialized or engaged in the area of good governance and democratization, representatives of foreign countries and of the media have the right to send observers to the elections.
3. Candidates presented by a group of voters in their respective zones are entitled to appoint an observer to the CEAZ, to the VCC and to the Ballot Counting Centre.
4. The accreditation of the observers to electoral commissions is made on the basis of individual data for each observer. The accreditation may include one or more voting centres, or one or more electoral zones. An Albanian non-governmental organisation or a coalition of such organisations, a political party, a coalition or a candidate proposed by voters, may not have more than one observer present in a voting centre at the same time. Any foreign non-governmental organisations and international organisations may not have more than two foreign observers at the same time in a voting centre.
5. Requests by Albanian observers for accreditation are to be submitted to the CEC not later than 15 days before the election date. The CEC approves the requests no later than 5 days after their submission. Requests by foreign observers are to be submitted not later than 72 hours before the election date. The CEC approves the requests of foreign observers within 24 hours from their submission. An appeal against a refusal or failure to grant accreditation may be filed according to the procedures provided in this Code.
6. The CEC has the right, by a special instruction, to delegate to the CEAZs the competency to grant accreditation to observers according to points 2 and 3 of this article.
