The proposed provisions on the composition of the highest election body are not fully in line with international good practice for election commissions with multi-party representation. The Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters provides that the central election commission should include representatives of parties already in parliament or having scored at least a given percentage of the vote. Such membership should be premised on equality, which can be construed strictly or on a proportional basis, the latter taking account of the parties’ relative electoral strengths.The proposed amendments do not establish equal rights (strict or proportional) to membership on the commission as they introduce a provision that parliamentary parties have the right to appoint a CEC member only if the party is entitled to state funding in accordance with the law and at least one of its members of parliament carry out parliamentary activities in accordance with paragraph 10 of Article 224 of the Regulation of the Parliament.