60.1. The Technical Unit of Liaising with the Local Public Bodies will be attached to the Executive Secretariat and has the following responsibilities:

a) To propose to the Liaising Commission the guidelines, criteria and regulations that the Institute issues for the ful f llment of the functions that, in the terms of the provisions of this Law, it delegates to the Local Public Bodies;

b) To follow-up and inform the Liaising Commission regarding the functions delegated to the Local Public Bodies;

c) To promote coordination between the Institute and the Local Public Bodies for the development of the electoral function;

d) To prepare the studies and reports requested by the Commission of Liaising with the Local Public Bodies;

e) To assist the Commission of Liaising with the Local Public Bodies with the integration of the proposal to form the Councils of the Local Public Bodies;

f) To prepare, in the year prior to the corresponding election, the calendar and the integral plan of coordination with the Local Public Bodies for the electoral processes of the states that hold elections, and to coordinate their delivery for the information of the General Council;

g) To make available to the Commission of Liaising with the Local Public Bodies the annual reports by the Local Public Bodies in respect to the exercise of the delegated faculties and other matters that the Institute should know of, for the information of the General Council;

h) To prepare the draft agreements and regulations necessary to coordinate the organization of the electoral processes in the states, in terms of the provisions of subsection a) of Section A of Basis V of article 41 of the Constitution, this Law and other applicable legislation;

i) To facilitate the coordination between different parts of the Institute and the Local Public Bodies, and

j) The other responsibilities established by this Law.