Article 17.14(1) of the draft law provides that public servants and officials holding political and discretionary positions are prohibited from campaigning while performing their official duties, except when they are the authors of the initiative of holding a referendum. The same rule applies to the pedagogical staff of education institutions, but without an exception. Extensive mobilisation of public resources for campaign by the authorities, which negatively impacted on the equality of opportunity for the supporters and opponents of the proposal, was noted by the OSCE/ODIHR in the 2015 constitutional referendum in Armenia. Recommendations were made to regulate the use of public funds to ensure equality of opportunity for referendum supporters and opponents, as well as to impose stricter limits on campaigning by public officials. The draft law does not sufficiently address these recommendations.