(1) There shall be considered minor offences the following facts:

a) the deliberate entering of an elector on more electoral rolls, be they permanent or special, the entering on the electoral rolls of fictitious persons or of persons not entitled to vote;

b) the keeping of the registers with permanent electoral rolls or of registers with special electoral rolls under inappropriate conditions;

c) the failure to make the notifications stipulated by law in due time and to operate them on the permanent electoral rolls, and in the special electoral rolls;

d) the operations made by unauthorized persons on the permanent electoral rolls, and in the special electoral rolls;

e) the failure to notify the courts of law of the alterations operated on the sample of the permanent electoral roll or on that of the special electoral roll existing at the town hall;

f) the signing up of the list of supporters by infringing the dispositions of Article 122;

g) the infringing of the dispositions with regard to the posting of candidature nominations referred to in Article 13 (1);

h) the use of the electoral sign registered to the Central Electoral Bureau by a political party, organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliance, electoral alliance or independent candidate by another political party, organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliance, electoral alliance or independent candidate;

i) the organizers’ failure to take the necessary measures for the carrying out in normal conditions of the electoral meetings, as well as the distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages during such meetings;

j) the destruction, deterioration, staining, covering by writing or by any other method of the electoral rolls, with the exceptions stipulated in Article 197 (1) c);

k) the failure to observe the dispositions of Article 16 92) and (4) and of Article 182 (3)–(7); the posting of the electoral rolls and their copies; the destruction, deterioration, staining, covering by writing or by any other method of the platformprogrammes displayed or of any other posters or printed advertisements of electoral propaganda;

l) the acceptance of the candidature for several times by a person in the same elections to the European Parliament;

m) the failure to observe the decisions and judgements of the electoral bureaux; the failure to observe the decisions and judgements of the Permanent Electoral Authority;

n) the refusal to permit the elector who brings the proof that he/she is entitled to vote to exercise his/her right to vote at the polling station where he comes to;

o) the refusal to permit the access of the accredited persons to the premises of the polling station, with the exception of the cases when the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station restricts the access of the accredited persons to the premises of the polling station due to the size thereof;

p) the refusal to receive and register a written petition submitted in compliance with the dispositions of Article 194 (17);

q) the refusal to comply with the dispositions of the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station regarding the provision of order to the premises of the 42 polling station and to its surroundings;

r) the refusal to hand over the ballot paper and the stamp with the specification “VOTED” to the elector who has signed on the electoral roll; the handing over of the ballot paper to an elector who does not produce the identity paper or identity document, where appropriate, or who refuses to sign for the receipt thereof on the electoral roll on which he has entered; the failure to observe the dispositions of Article 194 (8);

s) the failure to affix the stamp with the specification “VOTED” or the selfadhesive stamp on the identity paper or identity document, where appropriate, as well as the holding thereof without grounded reasons by the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station;

ş) the failure to observe the dispositions of Article 194 (2); the drawing up of the statements of poll by the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, under the sanction of this law;

t) the continuation of the electoral propaganda after its closing, as well as the counselling of the electors at the premises of the polling stations on the voting day with a view to the voting of a certain political party, political alliance, electoral alliance, organisation belonging to national minorities or independent candidate;

ţ) wearing of badges, insignia or other signs of electoral propaganda during the voting process by the members of the electoral bureau of the polling stations, the persons on military watch or accredited persons;

u) the violation by the members of the electoral bureaux of the duty to take part in the activity of the bureaux;

v) the refusal of the president of the electoral bureau or of his/her deputy to deliver a copy certified by the statement of poll to the persons entitled to it in compliance with the provisions of law;

w) the infringing of the accreditation conditions by the accredited persons and by the poll operators of the poll institutes, of trade companies or of the Non-governmental organisations that have been accredited by the Central Electoral Bureau by decision;

x) the failure to observe the dispositions of Article 15;

y) the failure to observe the dispositions of Article 17, 171 (1)-(3) and (5), and of Article 18 (2)-(4);

z) the failure to observe the dispositions of Article 182 (8)-(11);

z1 ) the failure to observe the dispositions of Article 192 (12).*

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