Amendments to the Act on Electoral Procedure introduce various changes to the legal provisions relating to the election commissions and offices. The ODIHR previously noted concerns with the procedure in Sections 21 and 23 for selection of some of the members of territorial and local election commissions – that is, election by, respectively, the capital city or county general assembly following nomination by the head of the territorial election office or election by the representative body of the settlement’s municipality following nomination by the head of the local election office. Section 24 of the Act on Electoral Procedure, as amended by Section 12 of the Act, regulates the election of polling station commission members by the representative body of the settlement’s municipality. All these provisions leave the appointment to lower levels of the electoral administration in the hands of a political body. Other systems of appointment would ensure more neutrality, for example, a random one or leaving the nomination to independent electoral authorities. In light of stakeholders’ concerns with the impartiality of heads of these election offices who are politically-appointed municipal clerks, the Venice Commission and ODIHR recommend that members of lower-level commissions be selected through open and transparent recruitment, based on clear criteria, in line with previous recommendations.