(1) The amounts necessary for covering the expenses incurred by the prefect’s institutions in order to manufacture the stamps of the constituency electoral bureaus and the control stamps of the polling stations, to print the ballot papers, to transport, pack and distribute the materials, documents and standard forms referred to by law for the unfolding of the electoral process, as well as the payment of the allowances of the members of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations, of the electoral bureaus, the payment of the auxiliary technical staff of these bureaus and of the computer operators of the polling stations shall be ensured from the State budget, through the budget of the Ministry of Interior, for the prefect’s institutions.

(2) The amounts necessary for covering the expenses incurred by the Ministry of Interior for paying the paper actually used for printing the ballot papers and for manufacturing the “VOTED” stamps and the self-adhesive stamps shall be ensured from the State budget, through the budget of the Ministry of Interior.