Procedure for Establishing the Precinct Election Commission of an Out-ofCountry Election Precinct

1. The precinct election commission of an out-of-country election precinct shall be established by the Central Election Commission no later than fifteen days prior to the day of voting and shall consist of the chair, deputy chair, secretary, and other members of the commission. The number of members of a precinct election commission of an out-of-country election precinct shall be determined in accordance with Parts two and three of Article 141 of this Code.


2. The precinct election commission of an out-of-country election precinct shall be made up of voters residing or staying, during the period of preparation and conduct of election, in the territory of the respective foreign state.


3. The right to nominate candidates to the precinct election commissions of out-of-country election precincts, except for subjects specified in Part two of Article 140 of this Code, shall also be granted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.


4. No later than seventeen days prior to the day of voting, a subject eligible to nominate precinct election commission members in an out-of-country election precinct shall submit to the Central Election Commission, in a form approved by the Central Election Commission, the paper and electronic forms of the list of persons nominated by that subject (no more than one candidate to one commission) to be appointed to the respective precinct election commissions. Such a submission shall indicate the persons nominated to the positions of the chair, deputy chair, and secretary of the commission. The submission shall be signed by the chair of the nominating subject (or a person acting in his or her capacity) and affixed with the seal of the respective nominating subject.


5. In the submission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine shall include the employees of foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine (in compliance with the requirements of Article 34 of this Code), members of military units (commands) deployed abroad, or other citizens of Ukraine entitled to vote who reside or stay during the period of preparation and conduct of the election in the territory of the respective foreign state.


6. The submission of nominees to precinct election commissions shall contain the data required by Part five of Article 140 of this Code. The submission shall be appended with photocopies of each of the nominees’ passport of a citizen of Ukraine for foreign travel (diplomatic or service passport) containing the information on the last name, first name and patronymic name, the date, month and year of birth of such persons (such a person), or photocopies of a passport of a citizen of Ukraine (photocopies of the first and second pages of the passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the form of a passport book or photocopies of the front and reverse side of a passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the form of a card) in the states, which allow entry of citizens of Ukraine based on a passport of a citizen of Ukraine.


7. Repealed.


8. Candidates proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine shall be appointed to the precinct election commission of an out-of-country election precinct in case insufficient number of candidates was submitted by the nominating subjects specified in Part two of Article 140 of this Code.


9. Nominees may be rejected only on the grounds of their noncompliance with the requirements specified in Parts two and six of this Article, as well as in Article 34 of this Code, or application of the mechanism of drawing of lots specified by Part five of Article 141 of this Code.


10. Repealed.


11. Each subject that nominates candidates to precinct election shall have the right to a proportional share of each category of managerial positions in precinct election commissions, separately for small, medium-sized and large out-of-country election precincts, which depends on the number of nominees from the respective nominating subject included in precinct election commissions. The share of managerial positions for each subject nominating candidates to each type of out-of-country election commissions shall be determined on the basis of the proportion of a number of nominees included from this nominating subject in election commissions of each type of election precincts, in relation to the total number of members included in the election commissions of the respective type of election precincts. A person appointed to a precinct election commission upon proposal of the chair of the district election commission cannot be appointed to a managerial position in that election commission, unless no submissions, or less than the required number of submissions, for appointment of respective nominees to the positions of the chair, deputy chair, and secretary of the respective election commission have been submitted. Managerial positions shall be distributed between the nominating subjects based on the shares determined in accordance with this Part of this Article according to procedures established by the Central Election Commission.


12. A person appointed to a precinct election commission upon submission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine can be appointed to a managerial position in the election commission only if no candidates for such a position have been nominated by other nominating subjects.


13. Decisions on the establishment and composition of precinct election commissions of out-ofcountry election precincts, adopted in accordance with the requirements of this Code, shall be made public on the official website of the Central Election Commission on the day following the day on which that decision was adopted. Information on the location (address of the premises) and working hours of the precinct election commissions established at foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine and in military units (commands) deployed abroad shall be published by the respective foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine in accordance with the local conditions of the country in question.