(1) The electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall be made up of 3 sitting judges of the Bucharest Tribunal, a representative of the Permanent Electoral Authority, appointed by it by decision, and of 10 representatives at the most of the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances or of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that take part in the elections.

(2) The provisions of Article 142 (2) - (4) shall apply accordingly. 20 (3) The electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall have the following duties:

a) it shall see to the organisation of the polling stations abroad in due time, shall pursue and ensure the unitary implementation and the observance of this law’s provisions by all the authorities, institutions and organisms with duties in electoral matters for the organisation of the poll abroad; it shall ensure the instruction of presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, as well as of their deputies;

b) it shall settle objections referring to its own activity and contestations regarding the proceedings of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad; contestations shall be settled by decisions which are binding for the electoral bureau in question, as well as for the public authorities and institutions to which they refer, under the sanctions of this law;

c) it shall distribute, on the basis of a minute, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad the ballot papers, the control stamps, the stamps with the specification “VOTED”, as well as other material required by the electoral process;

d) within 5 days at the latest, prior to the reference date, it shall receive from the Permanent Electoral Authority the table which includes the Romanian citizens who exercise their voting right in the elections to the European Parliament in another Member State of the European Union, as well as the table including the Community voters, whose names have been entered on the special electoral rolls to the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad, through the agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

e) it shall sum up the number of validly cast ballots for each list of candidates and for the independent candidates, and shall communicate it to the Central Electoral Bureau aiming to settle the electoral threshold;

f) it shall centralize the election result for the polling stations abroad and shall submit to the Central Electoral Bureau the statement of poll referred to in Article 198 , the statements of poll received from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, as well as all the objections and contestations;

(4) The electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall carry out any other duties incumbent to it in accordance with the law.

(5) The decisions shall be made public by posting or by any other means of publicity.

(6) Should there be found discrepancies between the data in the statements of poll received from the polling stations abroad, the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall ask the president of the electoral bureau to operate the necessary rectifications, which shall be certified by signature and by affixing the control stamp of the polling station.

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*Introduced by G.E.O. no. 1/2007 and amended by G.E.O. no. 11/2009.