(1) The electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall be made of 3 sitting judges of the Bucharest Court of Law, one representative of the Permanent Electoral Authority appointed by decision, and no more than 7 representatives of the political formations that proposed candidates.

(2) The provisions of Art. 18 (2) – (3) shall apply accordingly.

(3) The electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall have the following duties:

a) it shall monitor and ensure the unitary application and observance of the legal provisions concerning the elections by all the authorities, institutions and organizations which have responsibilities in electoral matters regarding the organization of the voting abroad;

b) it shall provide the training of the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations organized abroad;

c) it shall solve the objections referring to its own activity, and the contestations regarding the activity of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad;

d) it shall distribute to the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad, through the agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the basis of a written report, the ballot papers, the control stamps, the stamps marked “VOTED”, as well as the other materials required by the electoral process;

e) it shall centralize the results of the vote counting in the polling stations abroad, and shall submit to the Central Electoral Bureau the statement of the vote regarding the centralization of the results of the vote in the polling stations abroad, the statements of the vote received from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad, as well as all the contestations and objections received;

f) it shall hand over, on the basis of a written report, to the Bucharest Court of Law all the documents and materials which are not handed over to the Central Electoral Bureau.

(4) The electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall discharge any other duties incumbent upon it according to the law.

(5) In the discharge of the duties incumbent upon it according to the provisions of this law, the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall adopt decisions. The decisions of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall be mandatory for all the authorities, public institutions, electoral bureaux, organizations which have responsibilities in electoral matters, as well as for all the participants in the elections they refer to, falling under the territorial jurisdiction of the bureau, and shall be made public by posting or by any other means of publication.