(1) The Central Electoral Bureau shall have the following duties:

a) it shall ensure the application and unitary interpretation of the provisions of this law;

b) it shall ascertain that the content and form of the conditions stipulated under this law for the candidacies are carried out; it shall communicate the registered candidacies to the county electoral bureaux, the electoral bureaux of the districts of Bucharest Municipality, and the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, and shall make these candidacies known through the agency of the public radio and television services, as well as by posting them on its own Internet page;

c) within 48 hours of the date the candidacies have become final, it shall establish the order of candidates on the ballot paper, by drawing lots, in the first place from among the candidates proposed by the political formations represented in Parliament, and in the second place from among the other candidates; it shall communicate the order of the candidates and of their electoral signs on the ballot paper to the Constitutional Court and the Autonomous Régie ”Monitorul Oficial”, and it shall make it public through the agency of the public radio and television services, as well as by posting it on its own Internet page;

d) it shall solve the objections referring to its own activities , and the contestations regarding the activity of the county electoral bureaux, of the electoral bureaux of the districts of Bucharest Municipality, and of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad; in the event that actual checks are needed to be carried out in order to solve an objection or contestation, these checks shall be done in the presence of a judge of the Central Electoral Bureau; such checks shall not be done on election date;

e) it shall centralize the election results, ascertain the elected candidate, and present to the Constitutional Court the documents which enable the validation of the mandate of President of Romania;

f) it shall organize and implement a system designed to collect data and to periodically inform public opinion about the presence of the population in the voting process;

g) it shall transmit to the Permanent Electoral Authority all the materials and documents it has collected, after the publication of the election results in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I;

h) it shall decide on the recounting of the votes in a polling station or on the remaking of the centralization of the votes and of the election results, in case the Bureau finds that there are errors or inconsistencies among the data recorded in the statements of poll;

i) it shall carry out any other obligations incumbent upon it according to this law.

(2) In the discharge of the duties incumbent upon it according to the provisions of this law, the Central Electoral Bureau shall adopt decisions and resolutions.

(3) The decisions of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be adopted in order to apply the provisions of this law, to approve or reject the protocol for setting up an electoral alliance, to approve or reject the registration of candidacies, to approve or reject the registration of electoral signs, to solve the objections and contestations within its competence, as well as in order to be applied in other cases provided by this law. The decisions of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be mandatory for all the authorities, public institutions, electoral bureaux, and organizations which have responsibilities in electoral matters, as well as for all the participants in the elections, shall be transmitted to the interested parties, and shall be made public by posting on its own Internet page.

(4) The resolutions of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be adopted for the unitary interpretation of this law, shall be generally mandatory, and shall be made public by posting on its own Internet page and by the publication in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I.