1. The salary and privileges of a CEC member are the same as the salary and privileges of a High Court judge. The salary of a CEC Chairman is 10 percent higher than a CEC member’s salary.
2. A CEC member is to exercise his function in an independent manner. He is to vote in compliance with the law.
3. A CEC member is not to participate in the examination of and voting on an issue when:
a) he has a close relationship by marriage, or family relations to the fourth degree, with any of the candidates who have submitted a complaint to the CEC; or
b) he has one of the impediments provided in article 37 of the Code of Administrative Procedures.
4. The withdrawal from examining and voting on an issue is to be declared in writing by a CEC member or may be requested by any representative of electoral subjects or by other members of the CEC. The withdrawal from the examination and voting on an issue or the decision of the CEC to exclude a member from the examination and the result of the vote is to be recorded in the official records.
5. Upon the end of his duty, the CEC member returns to his previous place of work, and if this is not possible, to another place of work of the same level in the organs of the public administration.
