Finally, recommendations of lesser importance contained in the first Joint Opinion were not or only partly followed. This includes recommendations related to a general prohibition of the misuse of administrative resources; the transparency of the tabulation process; electoral thresholds applied for political parties and alliances at different levels of elections, as well as those applied for returning electoral deposits; formation of candidate lists for minority representatives; nomination of candidate lists by groups of citizens; the deadlines for submitting the documents for registration of candidate lists in case of early elections; reasonable deadlines for accreditation of observers and media representatives; the scope and timeframe of the Oversight and Audit Service’s activities.