(1) Within the meaning of this law, electoral period shall mean the time span that starts from the date of bringing the reference date to public knowledge and ends at the publication of the election result in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I; the electoral period includes the interval between the date of bringing the reference date to public knowledge and the starting date for the electoral campaign, the electoral campaign, the actual conduct of the election, the ballot counting and centralisation, the ascertaining of the election result, the allotment of mandates, elections validation, as well as the publication of the election result in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I.
(2) Within the meaning of this law, identity document shall mean an identity document issued by the Romanian state, namely identity card, temporary identity card, identity document or diplomatic passport, electronic diplomatic passport, business passport, business electronic passport, regular passport, regular electronic passport, temporary regular passport, or military service record for students in military schools.
(3) A regular passport, a regular electronic passport, and a temporaryregular passport may be used in order to exercise the right to vote only by the Romanian citizens who are abroad, or by the Romanian citizens having their domicile abroad.