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Article 20
 

Competencies of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the CEC

1. The CEC Chairman has the following competencies:

a) chairs the CEC meetings and represents the CEC in its relations with other institutions;

b) performs the duties of the administrative director of the institution. In carrying out the competencies according to this letter, the CEC Chairman issues internal orders only on the basis of and for the implementation of CEC decisions.

2. The CEC Deputy Chairman performs the duties of the Chairman when the latter is absent.

3. The Chairman exercises the competences under letter (a) of point 1 of this article together with the Deputy Chairman. All acts issued according to letter (b) of point 1 of this article are also to be signed by the Deputy Chairman; otherwise they are invalid. The cases when the Chairman or the Deputy Chairman do not exercise their functions for objective reasons are exempt from this rule.