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Article 204
 

Referendum on the Draft Law Submitted Upon Popular Initiative


1. If the National Assembly rejects the adoption of the draft law submitted under the procedure prescribed by part 6 of Article 109 of the Constitution, then the draft shall be put to referendum where an additional three hundred thousand citizens having the right of suffrage join the initiative of adopting the draft law, within a period of sixty days following the rejection, and where the Constitutional Court recognizes the given draft as complying with the Constitution. The Central Electoral Commission shall approve the validity of the signatures of the participants of the popular initiative. 


2. Laws adopted through a referendum may be amended only through a referendum. Such amendments may be made at least one year after the adoption of the respective law. 


3. Draft laws concerning the subject matter of legal regulation of constitutional laws, the State Budget, taxes, duties, other compulsory payments, amnesty, State defence and security, international treaties, as well as other issues prescribed by the Law on Referendum may not be put to referendum.