(1) At national level, they shall set up a Central Electoral Bureau, formed of 5 judges of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the president and the vice presidents of the Permanent Electoral Authority, and of no more than 12 representatives of the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances participating in the elections, under the law, as well as of a representative appointed by the parliamentary group of the national minorities in the Chamber of Deputies.

(2) The appointment of the 5 judges shall be made by the president of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, in open meeting, the third day after the setting of the election day, by drawing lots from among the judges in exercise of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. The date, time and place of the open meting for drawing lots shall be communicated in writing by the president of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, one day before the conduct day, to the parliamentary political parties, and shall be made public by written and audio-video press. One representative, appointed as such, of each parliamentary political party shall have the right to participate in the organisation and performance of drawing of lots. The result of drawing of lots shall be registered in a minute, signed by the president and the prime-deputy-magistrate of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. The minute shall represent the act of investiture.

(3) Within 24 hours of the investiture, the designated judges shall elect from among themselves, by secret ballot, the president of the Central Electoral Bureau and his deputy. Within 24 hours of the election of the president of the Central Electoral Bureau, the bureau shall be completed with the president and the vice presidents of the Permanent Electoral Authority, with a representative of each parliamentary political party and organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities having their own parliamentary group within both Chambers of the Parliament, as well as with the representative appointed by the parliamentary group of the national minorities in the Chamber of Deputies, communicated in writing by them. The completion of the Central Electoral
Bureau shall be registered in a minute representing the act of investiture. In this structure, the Central Electoral Bureau shall fulfil all the attributions incumbent upon it according to the present title.

(4) Within two days after the candidatures remain final, the political parties that are not represented in the Parliament, their political and electoral alliances participating in the elections shall communicate in writing to the Central Electoral Bureau the full name of the representatives. The communications made after this time limit shall not be taken into consideration anymore.

(5) The appointment of the representatives of the non-parliamentary parties, political and electoral alliances from among them in the Central Electoral Bureau shall be made in decreasing order of the number of candidatures remained final in the uninominal colleges.

(6) If upon appointment of the representatives of the non-parliamentary parties, political or electoral alliances from among them the last place to be distributed is due to parties or alliances that have submitted the same number of candidatures, the appointment of their representatives shall be made by
drawing lots by the president of the Central Electoral Bureau, in the presence of the persons delegated by the political parties, political alliances, or electoral
alliances in cause.

(7) The completion of the Central Electoral Bureau with the representatives of the non-parliamentary parties, political or electoral alliances shall be made, within 24 hours of the expiry of the time limit stipulated in paragraph (4), by the president of the Central Electoral Bureau, in the presence of the members of the bureau and of the persons delegated by the political parties, political alliances and electoral alliances having communicated the representatives. The minute drawn up by the president regarding the way of setting the representatives shall represent the act of attesting their quality of members in the Central Electoral Bureau.

(8) The electoral competitors who appoint representatives in the Central Electoral Bureau according to the provisions of paragraphs (3) and (4) may also appoint one deputy for each representative. The deputy may only replace, having the same rights and obligations, the respective occupant when this one cannot participate in the meetings of the Central Electoral Bureau.

(9) In the structure stipulated in paragraph (1) the Central Electoral Bureau shall adopt, within two months of the setting up, a regulations of organisation and functioning which shall be published in OJ, Part I, and which shall be mandatory for all the electoral bureaux.

(10) The additional technical staff of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be provided by the Permanent Electoral Authority together with the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reform, and the necessary statisticians by the National Statistics Institute.