(1) The electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall be composed of 3 sitting judges of the Bucharest Tribunal, one representative of the Permanent Electoral Authority designated by it by decision and 10 representatives at the most of the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances or organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities which participate in the elections.

(2) The provisions of Article 26 (2)–(4) apply accordingly.

(3) The electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall have thefollowing attributions:

a) shall see to the early establishment of the polling stations abroad, shallmonitor and provide the equal implementation of and compliance with the provisions of the law on elections by all authorities, institutions and bodies involved in the field of elections for the organisation of the elections abroad; shall provide the training of the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations and of their deputies;

b) shall settle the objections regarding their own activity and the petitionsconcerning the operations of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad; petitions shall be settled by decisions which are binding for the electoral bureau in question, as well as for the public authorities and institutions they refer to, under the sanctions of this law;

c) shall distribute to the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad,through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the basis of a minutes, the ballot papers, the control stamps, the stamps marked “VOTED”, as well as the other material required by the electoral process;

d) 5 days at the latest before the reference date, shall receive from thePermanent Electoral Authority the table including the Romanian citizens which vote in the elections to the European Parliament of another Member State of the European Union, as well as the table including the community voters registered on the special electoral rolls which it shall transmit through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad;

e) shall sum up the number of the validly cast votes for each roll ofcandidates and independent candidates, of which it shall notify the Central Electoral Bureau in order for it to determine the electoral threshold;

f) shall centralise the return of the elections in the polling stations abroadand shall submit to the Central Electoral Bureau the statement of poll provided for in Article 50, the statements of poll received from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, as well as all the objections and petitions.

(4) The electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall carry out anyother attributions incumbent upon it under the law.

(5) The decisions shall be brought to public knowledge by posting or by anyother means of publicity.

(6) Should it find discrepancies between the data contained in the statementsof poll received from the polling stations abroad, the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall request the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station to make the necessary corrections which he shall certify by his signature and by affixing the polling station stamp. The provisions of Article 49 (9) apply accordingly.