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ANNEX II
 

1. The responsibility to manage the ECS rests only with the technical staff of the ECS.
The technical staff of the ECS is fully responsible for the administration of the ECS equipment, the opening and closing of the ballot boxes, the extraction and arrangement of all the ballot papers for evaluation in the equipment, entering of any data or decisions of the CEAZ in the ECS, as well as other tasks envisaged in this Code or in the normative act of the CEC.
The staff does not take any decisions regarding the process or the evaluation of ballots.
The operator in charge with implementing the ECS is responsible for the recruitment and training of the technical staff. The selection of the staff is made jointly with the CEC in accordance with the procedures envisaged in the normative act of the CEC.


2. The ballot counting process is led and overseen by the CEAZ. The CEAZ is fully responsible for supervising the actions of the ECS staff, decision-making regarding the ballot papers which have not been evaluated by the ECS, the checking of the recording of each data in the ECS, and the signing of the tables of results, in accordance with the provisions of this Code.
For a better supervision of the process, the CEAZ may be divided into several two-member teams, while preserving at all times the political balance of the CEAZ.


3. The CEAZ assigns four representatives of electoral subjects who are in charge only of the verification of the materials in the ballot box, pursuant to the procedures set forth in article 116/1 of the Code. In each ballot counting centre, a special table is organized only for this purpose.
The party proposing the Chair of the CEAZ proposes one representative and the party proposing the Deputy Chair of the CEAZ proposes another representative. The two other representatives are proposed respectively by the majority and minority party that have the right to propose members to the CEAZ, except for the parties which propose the Chair and the Deputy Chair. The persons are assigned by the CEAZ no later than 5 days before the election date.


4. The observers of electoral subjects stay in front of the tables where the counting device is placed and of the table of the verification of voting materials, at a small distance from the working tables and in front of the ECS screens. The observers shall not have physical contact with the voting materials and the ECS equipment; however, they shall have full access to watch the actions of the ECS staff without obstacles. The observers have the right to put forward their remarks to the CEAZ, which is obliged to record them in the CEAZ Meeting Records Book.