The Czech Statistical Office

(1) The Czech Statistical Office prepares a binding system of determination and processing of election results and provides the software needed to process and forward the results of the elections.

(2) The Czech Statistical Office shall also

a) operate the technical system used to process the results of the elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic^5f) in compliance with Section 1 herein at individual sites established by designated municipal authorities, regional authorities, designated local authorities in the seat of election district, the State Electoral Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, regional authorities, designated municipal authorities and municipal authorities, b) process the overall results of the elections to the Chamber of Deputies (Articles 48 through 51), the registration source materials used by the State Statistical Office (Article 52) and the overall results of the elections to the Senate (Article 77) and forward them to the State Electoral Commission without delay, c) prepare election result reports and forward them to regional authorities or designated municipal authorities in the seat of the election district without delay, d) adopt all necessary technical measures ensuring that current and final election results are always available and provided, e) secure and train a sufficient number of its own employees authorised to monitor and process the results of the elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic as well as other personnel processing and forwarding the results of the elections for all individual sites established in compliance with Subsection a) herein, f) train selected members of district electoral commissions in the area of monitoring and processing of electoral results, g) issue individual district electoral commissions with printed computer configurations verifying that the election results provided by them have been accepted for further processing without defects, h) forward summary information on election results in election regions or districts and the Czech Republic in written form to all political parties, movements and coalitions and independent candidates whose candidate lists have been registered or whose registration applications have been accepted; all such information shall be also forwarded in electronic form in compliance with Section 1 herein, i) generate registers and code books featuring all candidates and all political parties, movements and coalitions running in the elections, j) inform regional authorities and designated municipal authorities in the seat of the election district of any and all duplicities that occurred in candidate lists and registration applications, k) deal with all complaints concerning the technical facilities and software used to process election results, l) forward its records of election progress and results accepted from district election commissions and special district election commissions to the relevant designated municipal authority for safekeeping within 10 days after their processing by the relevant designated municipal authority or the relevant detached office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been completed, m) provide information on election results in the required territorial structure upon request after the publication of final results of the elections to the Chamber of Deputies or the Senate.

(3) Only the employees of the Czech Statistical Office authorised in compliance with Section 2, Subsection e), are entitled to

a) be present in the room in which a district electoral commission counts the votes (Article 23), b) accept counterparts of records of election progress and results and election results on data medium, c) specify the time limit during which any and all errors are to be corrected and a new report on election results is to be presented, d) instruct district election commissions and special district election commissions to end their sessions on the second election day (Article 43, Section 5), e) organise collections of election results in all relevant election districts and special election districts, f) organise the processing of final election results in election regions (Article 46, Section 1) and election districts (Article 73, Section 1), g) produce and sign reports on election results in individual election regions (Article 46, Sections 2 through 4), h) produce and sign reports on election results in individual election districts (Article 73, Sections 2 through 4), i) forward summary information on election results in election regions and districts to the addresses of all respective representatives of political parties, movements and coalitions.

^{5f) Act No. 89/1995 Coll. on state statistical service, as amended.}