(1) The manufacturing of the stamps of the county electoral bureaux, of the electoral bureaux of the districts of Bucharest Municipality, of the control stamps of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, of the stamp of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, and of the stamps of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall be carried out through the offices of the prefects, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs respectively, by 10 days at the latest before the election date.

(2) The stamp of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be made by the Ministry of Administration and Interior, and the stamps marked “VOTED” shall be made by the Autonomous Régie “State Mint”. The stamp marked “VOTED” must be proportioned in such a way as to be smaller than the quadrilaterals on the ballot papers, smaller than the distance in-between respectively.

(3) In case of loss or theft of electoral stamps, the hierarchically superior electoral bureaux that owned those stamps shall take measures in order to replace them, with the support of the Autonomous Régie “State Mint”, of the prefect or of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the case may be.