Administrative acts of the Central Electoral Commission

(1) The Central Electoral Commission shall adopt decisions with the vote of an absolute majority of its members. Decision on amendment and repeal of previous decisions are passed under the same conditions.

(2) The decisions of the Central Electoral Commission, adopted within the limits of its competence, shall be administrative acts of individual or regulatory character, binding for lower electoral bodies, for public authorities, enterprises, institutions and organisations, regardless of the legal form of organisation, persons with responsible public positions, political parties and their bodies, electoral competitors and other subjects to which they are addressed and for all citizens.

(3) Decisions of the Central Electoral Commission of individual character shall enter into force on the date of its adoption or on the date indicated in the text thereof, and normative nature decisions shall enter into force in accordance with Article 56 of Law No 100/2017 on normative acts.

(4) Decisions shall be signed by the Chairperson of the Central Electoral Commission and, in his absence – by the Secretary. In the event if both Chairperson and Secretary are absent, the decisions of the Central Electoral Commission shall be signed by the Chairperson of the meeting.

(5) The decisions of the Central Electoral Commission shall be published on its official website within 24 hours of its adoption, and normative decisions shall also be published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova.

(6) Members of the Central Electoral Commission who disagree with the passed decisions shall have the right to express their separate opinions in writing, within 24 hours of their adoption, which shall be attached to those decisions.