(1) For elaborating, implementing and manipulating the systems and information applications used in the electoral processes, The Permanent Electoral Authority may hire qualified staff in the information technology domain, contractual staff that shall be registered with an individual employment contract on a limited period, ended by way of derogation from the provisions of Article 82 paragraphs (3) to (5) and from those of Article 84 paragraph (1) of Law No. 53/2003 – The Employment code, republished, as amended and supplemented.
(2) The staff provided in paragraph (1) shall carry out its activity in the positions of specialists in the information and communications technology, positions that are set up within the departments within the Permanent Electoral Authority.
(3) The number of positions related to the specialists in the information and communications technology, the criteria and methodology of selection, as well as the conditions under which this staff category carries out its activity shall be approved by order of the president of the Permanent Electoral Authority, within the limit of the maximum positions and of the approved budget destined thereof, to the staff of the Permanent Electoral Authority.
(4) By way of derogation from the provisions of Article 30 of Law No. 53/2004, republished, as amended and supplemented, and from those of Article 31 paragraph (1) of the Framework Law No. 153/2017 regarding the payment of the staff payed from public funds, as amended and supplemented, the classification of the qualified staff provided in paragraph (1) shall be made according to the criteria and methodology developed according to paragraph (3).
(5) The salary rights related to the positions set up according to paragraph (2) shall be established, by way of derogation from the provisions of the Framework Law No. 153/2017, as amended and supplemented, to the amount of 6 times the value of the gross average wage used to substantiate the budget of the state social insurances, by order of the president of the Permanent Electoral Authority.*
* Inserted by Law No. 148/2019.
