(1) The National electoral network shall be set up, besides the Permanent Electoral Authority, an organism without legal personality, which works under the coordination of the president of the Permanent Electoral Authority, which shall have the following objectives:

a) to assist the Permanent Electoral Authority in elaborating, integrating, correlating and monitorizing the policies regarding the security and resilience of the Romanian electoral system;

b) to assist the Permanent Electoral Authority in carrying out the activities of implementing and manipulating the Voter turnout monitoring system to prevent illegal voting;

c) to assist the Permanent Electoral Authority in elaborating, implementing and manipulating the systems and information applications used in the electoral processes.

(2) When carrying out the tasks conferred upon it, the National electoral network shall emit recommendations and reports.

(3) The tasks, the structure, organisation and functioning of the National electoral network, as well as the allowances which are incumbent to its members shall be determined by decision of the Government, at the proposal of the Permanent Electoral Authority.

(4) Of the National electoral network take part public servants of great importance from the Permanent Electoral Authority, department chiefs respectively and their public servants thereof, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Communications and Information Society and of the unities that work under its subordination or coordination, of the Special Telecommunication Service, of the National Institute of Statistics, of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications, of the Ministry of Interior, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of the Ministry of National Education, experts from the civil society, representatives of the parliamentary political parties, as well as of other institutions with attributions in the electoral domain.*

* Inserted by Law No. 148/2000.