1. The funds allocated for the preparation and conduct of the election of the President of the Russian Federation, financial support of the activity of election commissions, operation and development of automation facilities, training of election officials and legal education of voters shall be used by election commissions at their discretion for the purposes established by this Federal Law.

2. The allocations from the federal budget, including the funds remaining from previous periods, shall be used to finance the expenditures of election commissions incidental to:

1) Lost effect — Federal Law No. 93-FZ of July 21, 2005;

2) additional salaries (remuneration) of members of election commissions with the right of casting vote, employees of administration of election commissions, payment of compensation to members of election commissions with the right of casting vote relieved from their primary job for the period of the preparation and conduct of the election of the President of the Russian Federation and payments to citizens employed by commissions on the basis of civil-law contracts and specialists sent to work in control and audit services at election commissions;
(as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ of July 21, 2005)

3) production of printed materials and publishing activity;

4) acquisition, delivery and installation of equipment (including technological equipment), other tangible assets required for the conduct of the election and exercise of the powers of election commissions;

5) payment of travel expenses, including expenses on the organization of voting in remote and hard-to-reach areas;

6) delivery and safekeeping of election documents, preparation thereof for the transfer to archives and disposal;

7) development of the electoral system, including introduction of new electoral technologies and automation facilities, training of election officials and legal education of voters, implementation of target programs;

8) business trips and other activities connected with the conduct of the election of the President of the Russian Federation and the arrangements to ensure the exercise of the powers of election commissions and their activity.

3. Additional remuneration may be paid to members of an election commission having the right of casting vote for work in the election commission during the period of the preparation and conduct of the election of the President of the Russian Federation. A member of an election commission having the right of casting vote released from the primary job for the above period upon the commission's request shall retain his primary job (position) and shall be paid compensation for the period during which he was relieved from the primary job. Such compensation and additional salary (remuneration) shall be paid from and within the limits of the federal budget funds allocated for the preparation and conduct of the election of the President of the Russian Federation, in the amount and procedure established by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

4. Salary of members of an election commission having the right of casting vote and working on a permanent (staff) basis, employees of administration of election commissions shall be paid within the limits of the funds allocated from the federal budget to the election commission, in the amount and procedure established by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.
(as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ of July 21, 2005)

5. The procedure for opening and servicing bank accounts, accounting and reporting and transferring federal budget funds to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, other election commissions for the preparation and conduct of the election of the President of the Russian Federation shall be established in accordance with the Federal Law on Basic Guarantees of Voting Rights and the Right to Take Part in a Referendum Belonging to the Russian Federation Citizens. The banks shall not charge any fee for opening and servicing accounts of election commissions and shall not pay any interest for the use of funds kept therein. Election commissions shall keep accounting records relating to the use of funds allocated from the federal budget.

6. The forms of reports of election commissions on receipt and expenditure of funds allocated for the preparation and conduct of the election of the President of the Russian Federation shall be established by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation and agreed with the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
(as amended by Federal Law No. 64-FZ of April 26, 2007)

7. A precinct election commission shall submit a report on the receipt and expenditure of federal budget funds, allocated to the given precinct election commission for the preparation and conduct of the election, to the superior territorial election commission within ten days of voting day (or the repeat voting day, if such voting is conducted). The territorial election commission shall submit a report on the receipt and expenditure of federal budget funds, allocated to the relevant territorial election commission for the preparation and conduct of the election, to the election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation within 20 days of voting day (or the repeat voting day, if such voting is conducted)

8. The election commission of a subject of the Russian Federation shall submit a report on the receipt and expenditure of federal budget funds, allocated to the relevant election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation for the preparation and conduct of the election of the President of the Russian Federation, to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation within 50 days of the date of official publication of the general results of the election of the President of the Russian Federation.

9. The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation shall submit a report on the expenditure of federal budget funds and the information about the sums, received to and expended from election funds of candidates, to the chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and shall release this report and this information to the mass media within three months of the day of official publication of the general results of the election of the President of the Russian Federation. The above report and information shall be published by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation in its official newspaper and on the Internet within one month of their submission to the chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.