In accordance with the recommendations from the 2016 Joint Opinion and the Joint Venice Commission and ODIHR Guidelines for preventing and responding to the misuse of administrative resources during electoral processes, the amendments to the Electoral Code and other laws about the misuse of administrative resources during elections are to be welcomed. These include a ban during campaigning on the use of information provided for official purposes but not officially published. Further there is a ban on announcing new social security schemes during the campaign unless they are already in the budget. In addition, there is a proposal that when a public servant participates, as an official, in discussions of a political nature during an election campaign, the purpose of this involvement shall be limited to providing information on the official position.