(1) The Permanent Electoral Authority shall inform the authorities in the other Member States of the European Union with similar responsibilities with regard to the Community voters who have been entered on the special electoral rolls and to the Community eligible persons, whose candidature has been accepted by the Central Electoral Bureau.

(2) The Permanent Electoral Authority shall provide the required information to the authorities in the other Member States of the European Union with similar responsibilities, with regard to the Romanian citizens who expressed their intention to vote in the said Member States.

(3) In the event that the Permanent Electoral Authority is informed by an authority with similar responsibilities in another Member State of the European Union that a Romanian citizen has entered on the electoral roll in another Member State of the European Union, they shall communicate it to the National Centre for Database Management of the People’s Records in order to cross off his/her entry from the copy of the permanent electoral roll, and to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

(4) At the request of the Romanian citizens who want to stand as candidates to the European Parliament in another state of European Union, the Permanent Electoral Authority shall draw up certificates, in order to certify the fact that they have not been deprived by the right to be elected in Romania, or that, to the authority’s knowledge, such an interdiction does not exist.

(5) As a result of the information exchange between the authorities with similar responsibilities in the other Member States of the European Union, the Permanent Electoral Authority shall notify the Central Electoral Bureau the cases when the Romanian citizen registers stand as candidates to the European Parliament in other states of European Union.

(6) The Permanent Electoral Authority is the only public authority in Romania that may exchange information regarding the electoral rights of the citizens of Romania or of the other Member States of the European Union with the authorities in the other Member States of the European Union with similar responsibilities.

(7) The public authorities in Romania have the obligation to support the Permanent Electoral Authority in carrying out the duties referred to in paragraphs (1)- (6).

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*Amended by G.E.O. no. 11/2009.