1. The Central Election Commission shall provide for the centralized printing of election ballots by state-owned printing enterprises no later than 10 days before the election day on the basis of agreements entered into with such printing enterprises.
2. Technological waste, printing spoilage, as well as printing forms shall be destroyed according to procedure and within time period established in the agreement for election ballot printing.
3. Election ballots shall be received by the Central Election Commission in original wrapping of producer enterprise.
4. Election ballots for voting in the election constituency shall be printed on the same paper adhering to the form established by the Central Election Commission and the text as approved by the appropriate election commission and should be equal in size, colour and content. Election ballots for voting in multi-mandate election constituencies and in single-mandate election constituencies shall be printed on paper of different colour.
5. Election ballot shall be printed in the state language shall consist of one page, and its text shall be placed on one side only.
6. At a polling station formed on a ship which is at sea on the day of elections under the National flag of Ukraine or on a polar station of Ukraine, election ballots may as an exception on permission of the Central Election Commission, be printed directly by the respective polling station election commission.
7. In the event a decision on registration of a candidate for people’s deputy from political party (electoral bloc) in a multi-mandate election constituency or on registration of candidates for people’s deputies in a single-mandate election constituency has been revoked after the printing of election ballots, the Central Election Commission or the appropriate constituency election commission, respectively, shall adopt a decision regarding the introduction of changes to the election ballot or regarding the reprinting of such election ballot. Such changes approved respectively by the Central Election Commission or the appropriate constituency election commission shall be introduced to election ballots by members of polling station election commissions by means of an appropriate stamp. Every voter should be notified on changes introduced to election ballot when the election ballot is handed out.
