(1) Each political party and coalition certified to submit candidates for the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of BiH, or the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska shall submit a list of candidates for compensatory mandates to the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Such list shall be submitted for each of the bodies listed above for which the political party or coalition is certified, within five days of the date of certification of the candidates’ lists, as per Article 4.21 of this Law.

(2) The list of candidates for compensatory mandates shall include only the names of candidates already included on the regular candidates lists submitted by the political party or coalition for one or more multi-member constituencies. Candidates on a list of candidates for compensatory mandates may be from the list of any multi-member constituency within the same entity and at the same electoral level. Every candidates’ list for compensatory mandates shall include candidates of male and female gender, who are equally represented. The equal representation of the genders shall exist in case when one of the genders is represented with minimum of 40% of the total number of candidates on the list. The minority gender candidates shall be distributed on the candidates’ list for compensatory mandates in the following manner: at least one minority gender candidate amongst the first two candidates, two minority gender candidates amongst the first five candidates, and three minority gender candidates amongst the first eight candidates, et seq.

(3) A candidates’ list for compensatory mandates may contain a maximum number of so many candidate names as are already certified to a political party or coalition on all regular candidates’ lists for all multi-member constituencies within the same entity and at the same electoral level.

(4) Lists of candidates for compensatory mandates shall not be published on the ballot, but shall only be used for purposes of awarding compensatory mandates pursuant to Articles 9.7, 10.6, and 11.6 of the Law. The lists shall be published by the Central Election Commission of BiH in the “Official Gazette of BiH” and in the media.