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Article 61
 

The CEC supervises the voter lists compilation by requesting information from the General Directorate of Civil Status and local government units on the process of the establishment of the polling units and the number of voters for each voting centre in accordance with the rules envisaged in this Code and the law on civil status. 


2. No later than 30 days from the issuing of the decree setting the election date, the CEC appoints, by a decision, two technical auditors to verify the transactions in the database of the NCRS. The right of proposal for each technical auditors rests, respectively, with the Chair and Deputy Chair of the CEC after consultations with the representatives of the largest party of the ruling majority and the largest party of the opposition at the CEC. The technical auditors may not be discharged from duty except for infringements set out in point 9 of this article. His/her replacement is appointed no later than 5 days following the same procedures and criteria stipulated in this article.


3. The technical auditors shall have a university degree and expertise in the field of information technology or statistics, and shall be knowledgeable in the process of voter lists compilation and/or civil status. Special rules on the terms of the contract and audit procedures are established in a normative act of the CEC.


4. The technical auditors check for the compliance of the transactions performed by the civil status offices and the General Directorate of Civil Status with the rules established in this Code, the law on civil status, and other legal acts issued for their enforcement by the CEC and the minister responsible for the civil status service. The technical auditors shall also perform other duties as defined in this Code and CEC acts.


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7. The technical auditors present a monthly report to the CEC on their findings in line with the duties assigned by the CEC or remarks or issues related to the enforcement of the legislation on the register of the civil status. Each of the technical auditors may submit an individual report if he/she has an opinion or comment that is different from the other auditor.


8. The CEC, upon the request of two of its members, forwards the findings and recommendations of the technical auditors to the General Directorate of Civil Status within 48 hours, asking also for explanations related to them. The technical auditors’ reports are submitted to the CEC, which reviews them in a public session. The duty of the technical auditors regarding the supervision of voter list compilation is considered as completed once the final report on the voter list is compiled in accordance with article 56 of this Code.


9. The technical auditors are obliged to treat the data learned or administered during the exercise of their duty, only for the purposes of reporting to the CEC and in compliance with the legislation on personal data protection. The technical auditors may not pass the data, which may not be published according to the law, to third parties. A violation of this obligation is punishable under provisions of the applicable legislation.