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Paragraph 45
 

1. Reporting obligations before citizens


Parts 2 and 3 are dealing with the scrutiny of the report by meetings of citizens and subsequent steps. First, the report is presented to citizens meetings, giving them the opportunity to “vote “for” consideration of the report as inadequate”. This is the novelty introduced by the 2013 draft. The report is transmitted to the supervisory authority within 10 days from its approval. Second, if 25% of the citizens residing in the territory of the municipality and having voting rights have attended such meetings and if more than 50% of the present citizens have voted the report as inadequate, the attendance and the results of the votes have to be registered in the protocol of the meeting, which is then transmitted to the authority implementing administrative supervision over activity of municipalities. It is regrettable that, like in 200911, this authority is not better specified, either directly (by indicating its name) or indirectly, by reference to another legal provision.