(1) The State Electoral Commission shall:
- take care of the legal preparation and conduct of the referendum at state level;
- appoint a president, members and their deputies in the municipal electoral commissions;
- undertake technical preparations for conducting the referendum at state level;
- prescribe the forms for conducting the referendum at state level and publish them in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia”;
- determine the form, size, colour and serial numbers of the ballot;
- hand over the voting material to and receive it from the municipal electoral commissions;
- determine unified standards for the voting material;
- inform the citizens regarding the manner and technique of voting and the manner of fulfilment of the electoral right;
- provide material conditions for conducting the referendum at state level;
- determine the manner of handling and keeping the voting material;
- organize the printing of the voting material;
- submit report to the Assembly regarding the conducted referendum at state level within three days from the day of its conduct;
- adopt a Rulebook and Guidelines on compensation for the bodies for conducting the referendum at state level and submit financial report to the Assembly;
- prescribe the type of device to mark and check for marks the persons who have already voted (UV lamp, spray and graphite pad);
- form assistant bodies for performing organizational and technical works;
- announce the descriptions of the electoral places in the daily press;
- perform the works determined by the Law on Electoral List for Conducting the Referendum at State Level;
- decide upon complaints;
- determine and announce the result from the referendum at state level and
- perform other works as determined by law.
(2) The work of the State Electoral Commission shall be public.