(1) The electoral signs shall be set by each political party, political alliance, electoral alliance, organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities participating in the elections under the terms of the present title, within at least 60 days of the election day.

(2) The electoral signs must be communicated to the Central Electoral Bureau with a view to registering them, and they must clearly differ from those previously registered, with the use of the same graphical symbols being forbidden, irrespective of the geometrical figure in which they are framed. The political parties and alliances may use, as electoral sign, the permanent sign with which they registered themselves to the Tribunal of Bucharest.

(3) The electoral signs may not reproduce or combine the national symbols of the Romanian state, of other states, of international bodies or of religious cults. The political parties that are members of certain international political organisations shall make an exception, with them being entitled to use the sign of the respective organisation as such or in a specific combination.

(4) The electoral sign used by a political party, political alliance, electoral alliance, organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities, legally registered since 1990, shall belong de jure to them, if they are the first having used it, and may not be appropriated or used by another political party, political alliance, electoral alliance, organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities registered afterwards, unless with the consent of those to whom it belonged, of the parties forming the initial political or electoral alliance respectively.

(5) If the same electoral sign is requested by several political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities participating in the elections under the terms of the present title, the granting shall be made in favour of the political party, political alliance, electoral alliance, or organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities being the first having registered the respective sign.

(6) The contestations regarding the registration of the electoral sign shall be submitted within 24 hours of the expiry of the time limit stipulated in paragraph (1) and shall be settled by the Tribunal of Bucharest within no more than two days of the registration of the contestation. The decision shall be final and shall be communicated to the parties and to the Central Electoral Bureau within 24 hours at the most.

(7) The electoral signs may not be contrary to the order of law.

(8) The Central Electoral Bureau shall ensure that the electoral signs are made public the second day after the expiry of the time limit stipulated in paragraph (1) or, as appropriate, of the time limit stipulated in paragraph (6) final thesis, by publication on the personal Internet page and in OJ, Part I.

(8-1) Until the date on which the candidatures remain final, the Central Electoral Bureau shall communicate the electoral signs to the prefects, with a view to imprinting them on the ballot papers.

(9) The independent candidates may not use electoral signs.

(10) The political alliance or the electoral alliance having participated in the previous elections under a certain name may keep this name only if they didn’t change the initial structure or if none of the political parties having left the alliance submit to the Central Electoral Bureau a letter in which they state that they do not agree the respective name to be kept by the respective alliance under its new form. Also, the respective name may not be used by another political or electoral alliance.