1. The minister responsible for the civil status service issues orders and instructions on:

a) keeping, processing, updating, changing, extracting and publishing the NCSR’s electoral data;
b) procedures and deadlines for compiling and posting the lists and extracts of electoral components, voter notification, as well as making voter lists available to the subjects envisaged in this Code;
c) administration of polling units in compliance with article 62, splitting or merging of voter lists, as well as any other aspects related with the compilation of voter lists pursuant to this Code and the civil status legislation.
ç) templates and forms used in the process of voter lists compilation.

2. The General Directorate of Civil Status supervises and monitors all the actions taken at the NCSR, instructs and manages in terms of methodology the work of the civil status offices, requests them to verify and redress problems identified in the NCSR, takes disciplinary action against civil status employees who violate procedures on electoral component administration, and proposes to the CEC to undertake disciplinary measures against mayors who violate the rules established in this Code.

3. The CEC supervises the process of the voter lists compilation, the administration of the polling unit areas and number of voters per voting centre. The CEC requests information from the General Directorate of Civil Status and from local government units. The CEC imposes sanctions on the heads of the relevant institutions, in compliance with this Code, in the event of observed violations and failure to provide information.