213.1. The General Council will issue the rules, guidelines and criteria that the natural or legal persons should adopt to carry out surveys or opinion polls during the federal and local electoral processes. The Local Public Bodies will perform the functions on this matter in accordance with the mentioned rules, guidelines and criteria.

213.2. During the three days prior to the election and until the hour of the closing of the polling stations, it is strictly prohibited to publish, disseminate or make known, by any media, the results of surveys or opinion polls that aim to make the electoral preferences know.

213.3. The natural or legal persons that disseminate surveys or opinion polls should present to the Institute or to the Local Public Bodies a report about the resources applied in their realization in the terms of the corresponding electoral authority.

213.4. The methodology, costs, persons responsible and the results of the surveys or opinion polls will be disseminated on their webpage by the Local Public Bodies in their area of competence.