An important number of recommendations regarding complaints and appeals included in the first Joint Opinion have been met, including:

- lifting the limitation that enables candidates to challenge voting results only if they were present at the electoral precinct;

- providing additional time to submit complaints against PEC decisions on voting day to DECs on the second day after the voting (the time was prolonged by the amendments of 30 June 2016 from 9 to 9:30 to 9 to 11);

- adding provisions aimed to prevent conflicts of jurisdiction between electoral commissions and the administrative court;

- adding provisions aimed to reduce formalistic rejection of complaints.