(1) The electoral signs shall be sent to the Central Electoral Bureau, both in writing and in electronic format, together with the submittal of candidacy.

(2) The electoral signs of the candidates for the office of President of Romania must be clearly different, as the use of the same graphic symbols, irrespective of the geometric figure framing them, is forbidden. The candidates proposed by political parties and political alliances may use as electoral sign the permanent sign with which those political formations registered with the Bucharest Court of Law.

(3) The electoral signs may not reproduce or combine the national symbols of the Romanian state, of other states, of the European Union, of international organizations or religious cults.

(4) In case a candidate opts for the electoral sign of the political party, the organization of citizens belonging to a national minority, the political or electoral alliance that proposes him/her, as the case may be, the candidate may use it only if the political formation referred to, legally registered as from 1990, was the first to use that sign, and the sign may not be owned or used by another political party, political alliance, electoral alliance, organization of citizens belonging to a national minority that was registered later, or by an independent candidate except for the consent of those who have owned the sign, namely the parties that made up the initial political alliance or electoral alliance.

(5) In case the same electoral sign is requested by several candidates, it shall be assigned to the candidate who was the first to have registered that sign.

(6) The registration or rejection of the registration of electoral signs shall be made by the Central Electoral Bureau, by decision, together with the registration or rejection of the registration of candidacies.