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Previous ODIHR and PACE EOM reports stated that election commissions did not always ensure the transparency of the election dispute resolution process, as decisions on complaints, in particular at MECs’ level, were not made public in a consistent or timely manner, and the complaints registers were not maintained. The specific mechanisms to ensure the transparency of election dispute resolution systems among election commissions should be guaranteed by the working methods of the election administrations, such as sessions open to public, the duty to publish sessions’ protocols on the web or streaming of the sessions. Therefore, in order to address long-standing issues and respond to the expectation of transparency of election dispute resolution procedures, it is recommended to prescribe in the law rules aimed to ensure transparency and publicity of election commissions’ decisions on election dispute resolution, in particular by the publication by all election commissions of such decisions.