(1) The Central Electoral Bureau shall be made of 5 judges of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the president and vice-presidents of the Permanent Electoral Authority, and 10 representatives at the most of the political formations.

(2) The appointment of the 5 judges shall be done by the president of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, in open meeting, within 3 days of the coming into force of the Government Decision on setting the election date, by drawing lots,from among the sitting judges of the Court. The date of the meeting shall be made public in the media by the president of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, two days before the meeting.

(3) The result of the drawing of lots shall be recorded in a written report signed by the president and the first assistant magistrate of the High Court of Cassation and Justice.

(4) Within 24 hours of the nomination, the appointed judges shall elect from among them, by secret ballot, the president of the Central Electoral Bureau and his deputy. Within 24 hours of the election of the president of the Central Electoral Bureau, the structure of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be made of the president, the vice-presidents of the Permanent Electoral Authority, and one representative of each parliamentary political party. Consequently, the Central Electoral Bureau shall discharge all the duties that are incumbent upon it according to this law until it is completed with the representatives of the non-parliamentary political formations that proposed candidates.

(5) The making up of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be recorded in a written report that shall represent the deed of investiture.

(6) Within 48 hours at most of the date the candidacies have become final, each political formation that is not represented in Parliament and has proposed a candidate shall communicate to the Central Electoral Bureau the full name of its representative. Communications sent after this time limit shall no longer be taken into consideration. The Central Electoral Bureau shall be completed with the proposed representatives by drawing lots within 24 hours of the expiry of the time limit allocated to the communications, by the the president of the Central Electoral Bureau, in the presence of the members of the bureau and of the candidates, or of the persons delegated by the political formations that proposed the candidates, within the limits of the number of representatives stipulated under paragraph (1).

(7) The Central Electoral Bureau has a technical working apparatus made up of specialists from the Ministry of Administration and Interior, the Permanent Electoral Authority and the National Institute of Statistics.

(8) The Central Electoral Bureau, with the composition stipulated under paragraph (4), shall adopt, by decision, within 3 days of its constitution, the organization and functioning regulations of the electoral bureaux and the working apparatus thereof, which shall be published in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I, and shall be compulsory for all electoral bureaux and the working apparatus thereof.