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Article 165
 

§ 1. The National Electoral Commission shall perform activities resulting from the supervision over maintenance and update of the register of voters as well as over drawing up of lists of voters, and in particular:


1) shall control correctness of maintenance and update of the register of voters and ofdrawing up of lists of voters;


2) shall examine agreement of data from the register of voters and lists of voters with data in the population register and civil status records in a commune;


3) shall refer ex officio to competent bodies for deletion from the register of voters or the list of voters of persons who have been entered into the register or on the list in breach of legal provisions;


4) shall gather and make known to the public, at least once a quarter, information on the number of voters included in the register of voters in communes;


5) shall make known to the public, by commune, information on the number of voters entered on the lists of voters according to data as on the date of their being drawn up for particular elections.


§ 2. The activities mentioned in § 1 shall be performed by the National Electoral Commission with the help of the National Electoral Office. A detailed way of performing these activities, in order to ensure that they shall be performed appropriately, shall be stipulated in the rules of procedure of the National Electoral Commission.


§ 3. A minister in charge of the interior shall determine, after consulting the National Electoral Commission, by way of a regulation, obligations of bodies in charge of the population register in order to ensure for the National Electoral Commission performance of its tasks connected with the supervision over maintenance and update of the register of voters as well as over drawing up of the lists of voters, including the procedure for making documents accessible and for transferring of information on the number of residents included in the population register and on the number of voters entered into the register of voters and on the lists of voters as well as rules and forms of cooperation of government administration authorities with the National Electoral Office within this scope, taking into account the necessity to ensure security for processing of personal data, its transfer and receipt.