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Article 102
 

(1) The Permanent Electoral Authority has its own specialised apparatus.


(2) The organisation and functioning of the apparatus of the Permanent Electoral Authority, the number of staff, the statute of its staff, its powers and structure are established by the internal regulations for its organisation and functioning, approved through bylaw* of the permanent bureaus of the two Chambers of Parliament, upon proposal by the Permanent Electoral Authority. The staff of the Permanent Electoral Authority has the same statute as the staff of the apparatus of the two Chambers of Parliament. The offices of dignitaries are organised based on the provisions of Government Ordinance no. 32/1998 for the organisation of offices of dignitaries in the central public administration, approved as amended by Law no. 760/2001, as subsequently amended and supplemented, for the minister and, respectively, for the State Secretary. The provisions of Article XVI of Title III of Book II of Law no. 161/2003 on certain measures to ensure transparency in carrying out public dignities, public offices and in the business environment, the prevention and sanctioning of corruption, as subsequently amended and supplemented and those of Article III of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 229/2008 concerning certain measures for expenditure reduction at the level of public administration, as approved by Law no. 144/2009, do not apply to the organisation and functioning of its own apparatus.


(3) The Permanent Electoral Authority can have branches and offices in every county and in the Municipality of Bucharest. The setting up, organisation and functioning of its branches and bureaus, the number of staff, as well as their powers are established by the internal regulations on the organisation and functioning of the Permanent Electoral Authority.


(4) The staff of the specialised apparatus of the Permanent Electoral Authority are paid at the level set by law for the staff of the apparatus of the two Chambers of Parliament.


(5) All the staff receive bonuses or other supplements to the salaries established according to the law, calculated based on the monthly gross basic salary or on the classification allowance specific to the position held. By staff of the Permanent Electoral Authority we understand the staff paid and indemnified, appointed according to the law.


(6) The provisions of Law no. 7/2006 on the statute of parliamentary civil servants, republished, as subsequently amended and supplemented, shall apply accordingly to the staff of the specialised apparatus of the Permanent Electoral Authority.


(7) The President of the Permanent Electoral Authority shall appoint, promote, dismiss or revoke from office the staff of the specialised apparatus of the Permanent Electoral Authority, according to the law.


(8) The staff of the specialised apparatus of the Permanent Electoral Authority having the statute of high-ranking parliamentary civil servants shall be appointed, dismissed or revoked from office upon the approval of the joint permanent bureaus of the two Chambers of Parliament. The persons holding public dignities and those holding public offices corresponding to the category of high-ranking civil servants, who do not have their domicile or a personal home in the Municipality of Bucharest, shall receive a travel allowance, as set through the internal regulations for the organisation and functioning of the Permanent Electoral Authority.


(9) The staff of the specialised apparatus of the Permanent Electoral Authority having the statute of parliamentary civil servant cannot be members of any political party or faction.