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(3) Until the 1st day of January 2018, the Central Election Commission shall carry out three simulations of remote electronic voting, with voting for fictitious parties, coalitions or candidates.

(4) The Directorate General of Civil Registration and Administrative Services at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works shall provide the Central Election Commission with data on the voters referred to in sentence three of Paragraph (2) of a scope determined by a decision of the Central Election Commission, and not later than 18 days after the date of scheduling of the elections the Commission shall notify the voters in writing of the option available thereto to vote remotely on an experimental basis.

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(9) The Central Election Commission shall organise and conduct an awareness campaign regarding remote electronic voting.

(10) The Central Election Commission shall assign remote electronic voting and the related activities and shall organise, direct and control the procedure for conduct of the voting and the processing of the remote electronic voting data.

(11) The expenditures on the conduct of remote electronic voting shall be for the account of the State budget.

(12) The Central Election Commission shall adopt rules for the conduct of remote electronic voting, as well as for the summing of the results of remote electronic voting, not later than 55 days in advance of polling day. The said rules shall be published on the Internet site of the Commission.

(13) The Central Election Commission shall establish a permanent unit for technical support and technical control of remote electronic voting. The said unit shall coordinate the operation thereof with the Council of Ministers. Upon the execution of the functions thereof, the members of the unit shall be treated as domestic public officials within the meaning given by the Criminal Code.

(14) Remote electronic voting shall be implemented with the help of a remote electronic voting system. The Central Election Commission shall determine the technical requirements to the software and hardware component of the system. The system must:

1. ensure an easy and understandable access to the mechanisms and methods of voting;
2. offer voters step-by-step instructions for voting;
3. guarantee that only persons who satisfy the conditions under sentence three of Paragraph (2) and are registered would be able to vote;
4. ensure reliable and quick identification of voters;
5. ensure information of identical size and quality about each party, coalition or candidate;
6. guarantee the secrecy of the ballot and a free expression of the will of the voters by technical means;
7. ensure a possibility for easy navigation of the user software and in particular of the ballot;
8. not require from the voter any special skills other than the skills necessary for the use of Internet terminals;
9. allow the voter to use all operating systems;
10. make it possible to cast the vote within a period of time not exceeding 5 minutes;
11. guarantee that each voter casts only one vote and that each vote is stored and counted only once;
12. be certified to the highest ISO quality and immunity standard with regard to the software and hardware employed;
13. ensure maximum reliability against outside interference and unauthorised access, including against hacker attacks;
14. store the voting data;
15. allow the summing of the results, the distribution thereof by constituency and the transmittal thereof in the form of an
electronic image to the Central Election Commission after the completion of the voting;
16. guarantee that the terminal of the voter and the server components are connected in a way denying third parties the possibility to alter or gain access to the information exchanged;
17. maintain an electronic log of the election process, recording all irregularities and deviations from the envisaged mode which have occurred;
18. guarantee easy maintenance of the software and hardware and quick elimination of technical failures as they occur;
19. allow monitoring of the election process by independent and authorised individuals and bodies;
20. allow audit and verification on the part of authorised bodies;
21. be audited before each election, with the results of the audit being published on the Internet site of the Central Election Commission not later than ten days before the start of remote electronic voting;
22. have a publicly accessible source code;
23. make it technologically possible to identify potential violations of this Code;
24. allow voters to check whether their vote has been correctly tallied without this compromising the secrecy of the ballot;
25. allow independent vote counting;
26. enable the voter to covertly trigger an alert about an encroachment of his or her voting rights and to have his or her vote ignored in such cases;
27. satisfy the requirements for network and information security, established in the ordinance referred to in Article 43 (2) of the Electronic Governance Act;
28. not allow the adding, removing or replacing of votes outside the standard election process;
29. satisfy the requirements of the ordinance referred to in Paragraph (27);
30. conform to Appendix III to Council of Europe Recommendation Rec (2004)11 on legal, operational and technical standards for e-voting;
31. consist of components, each of which is electronically signed by the Central Election Commission within the meaning given by the Electronic Document and Electronic Signature Act.

(15) The Central Election Commission shall choose a certification body to certify the conformities of the system to the requirements covered under Paragraph (14). Registered observers shall have the right to monitor the certification process.

(16) The history of the accessing by public officials of all servers used by the remote electronic voting system under Paragraph (14) shall be published on the Internet site of the Central Election Commission daily within the period referred to in sentence four of Paragraph (20).

(17) The Central Election Commission shall prepare the system and shall enter the lists of parties, coalitions and candidates not later than 14 days in advance of polling day and, if necessary, shall create private keys to the functionality of the system not later than 24 hours and not earlier than two days before the start of the period for remote electronic voting, referred to in sentence four of Paragraph (20).