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Article 17
 

1. The salary and privileges of a CEC member shall be the same as the salary and privileges of a High Court judge. The salary of a CEC Chair is 10 per cent higher than a CEC member’s salary. The salary of the CEC Deputy Chair is 5 per cent higher than a CEC member’s salary.


2. A CEC member shall exercise his/her function in an independent manner.
He/she 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 he/she:


a) 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) has one of the impediments provided for 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 recorded in the minutes.


5. Upon the end of his/her duty, the CEC member returns to his/her previous public function, and if this is not possible, to another place of work of the same level in the bodies of the public administration.