Article 14.7 of the draft law provides that the procedure for verifying the validity of the collected signatures shall be prescribed by the CEC. It may be advisable to provide the general framework for this procedure in the law, including the main criteria for invalidation of individual signatures, acceptable number of invalid signatures, and appeal mechanisms, as well key principles such as transparency. In particular, all signatures must be checked. The legislative delegation to the CEC to define the verification procedure appears too broad, and main criteria, timelines and procedural guarantees for signature verification should be included in the law.