(1) The expenditures for carrying out the electoral operations shall be borne from the state budget.

(2) The seat of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be supplied by the Government, that of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the seats of the county electoral bureaux by the prefects and presidents of the county councils, those of the electoral bureaux of the districts of Bucharest Municipality, as well as those of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations by the mayors, together with the prefects, while the seats of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

(3) The expenditures for the endowment of the seats of the electoral bureaux provided for in paragraph (2) shall be borne from the state budget.

(4) The documents drawn up in exercising the electoral rights provided for in this law shall be exempt from the stamp duty.

(5) The Permanent Electoral Authority shall provide, according to the law, the computer applications and/or services used by the Central Electoral Bureau for the centralization of the voting results in the elections for the President of Romania.

(5¹) The National Institute of Statistics shall provide the publication and printing of the minutes determining the election results at the “̋Monitorul Oficial” R.A., the endowment with equipment, computers and consumable office supplies, as well as the training of the staff involved in performing the technical operations regarding the ascertainment of the results of the elections for the President of Romania by the Central Electoral Bureau, the county electoral bureaux, the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad and the electoral bureaux of the districts of Bucharest Municipality.

(5²) The Special Telecommunications Service shall provide the special telephone services, and the voice and data communications services required by the electoral bureaux in the elections for the President of Romania.

(6) The Government shall provide the Permanent Electoral Authority with the necessary sums for the purchase of the computer programs that shall be used by the Central Electoral Bureau for the centralization of the voting results, the necessary sums for covering the expenses incurred by the check of the permanent electoral rolls and of the tables used in the polling stations, as well as by the electronic archiving thereof and of the documents received from the Central Electoral Bureau.

(7) The Government shall provide the Permanent Electoral Authority with the necessary space for the storage of the permanent electoral rolls and of the tables used in the polling stations, as well as of the other materials resulting from the electoral process, which shall be kept in the archive of the Authority.