(1) Within 7 days of the setting of the elections date, the Government shall establish, at the proposal of the Permanent Electoral Authority and of the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reform, the calendar of activities within the electoral period, the necessary measures for the proper conduct of the elections, the model of the copy of the permanent electoral rolls, the model of the additional electoral roll, of the extract of the copy of the permanent electoral roll, or on the additional electoral roll, of the supporter’s list, of the list of members of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, of the stamp of the electoral bureaux, and of the stamp with the specification “VOTED”, of the declaration of nomination acceptance, of the declaration of nomination withdrawal, as well as of the certificate which proves the election of Deputies and Senators. Likewise, within the same time lapse, the Government shall approve by decision, at the proposal of the Permanent Electoral Authority, of the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reform, and of the Ministry of Economy and Finance the budget required for the organisation of the elections, and the expenditure for the preparation, organisation, and conduct thereof. At the same time, the Government shall establish, at least by 20 days prior to the date of elections, at the proposal of the ational Statistics Institute the model of record for the writing down of the election results.

(2) Within 60 days of the setting of the elections date, the Government shall establish, by decision, the length of time and the conditions of storing the unused ballot papers, of the disputed ones, as well as of the unused ones, of the stamps, and of the other materials utilised during the electoral process.

(3) Within 60 days of the setting of the elections date, the Permanent Electoral Authority shall elaborate a set of minimal conditions to be met by the locations where the polling stations are to be organised, as well as with respect to their minimal endowment.*