The legal gender quotas, applied in Council of Europe member states, differ considerably with regard to the minimum percentage of each sex among the candidatures. While only a few countries provide for the equal share of women and men on the party lists (Belgium) or among the overall number of party candidates (France), in most cases the required minimum of both sexes is lower: 40% in Spain, 35% in Slovenia, 33% in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Portugal, 30% in Albania, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” and Serbia, and 15% of the party/bloc lists in the PR contest of the Armenian elections.