Article 18 shall read as follows:
“Article 18. § 1. Central Register of Voters covers:
1) persons with the right to elect;
2) persons who are 17 years of age or older;
3) persons deprived of the right to elect for the reasons specified in Article 10§ 2;
4) information on permanent electoral precincts and constituencies.
§ 2. The Central Register of Voters confirms the right to elect.
§ 3. Central Register of Voters serves to:
1) compile electoral registers;
2) compile lists of persons entitled to participate in the referendum;
3) determine the number of voters;
4) verify the right to vote or the right to participate in a referendum in connection with the verification of signatures submitted to the competent authority in connection to holding a referendum or the registration of a legislative initiative by citizens or a civic resolution initiative by residents of a municipality, county or a region;
5) determine the number of residents for the purposes specified in Article 12 § 3, Article 182 § 1a, Article 202 § 1, Article 203 § 4, Article 260 § 3, Article 261 § 1 and 2, Article 373 § 2, Article 375 § 1, Article 378 § 3, Article 419 § 2, Article 463 § 1, Article 476 § 4 and Article 478 § 4;
6) implement other tasks arising from the provisions of the Code, the Act of 15 September 2000 on Local Referendum (Journal of Laws of 2019, item 741), the Act of 14 March 2003 on Nationwide Referendum (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 851) and the Act of 24 June 1999 on the Implementation of Legislative Initiative by Citizens (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 2120).
§ 4. The minister responsible for computerisation shall maintain the Central Register of Voters in the teleinformatic system, as well as ensure its maintenance and development in order to implement the tasks set forth in the Code, including:
1) ensuring protection against unauthorized access to the Central Register of Voters;
2) ensuring the integrity of the data in the Central Register of Voters;
3) ensuring the accessibility of the teleinformatic system in which the Central Register of Voters is maintained to entities that process data in the register;
4) preventing damage to the teleinformatic system in which the Central Register of Voters is maintained;
5) determining the security rules for processed data, including personal data;
6) determining the rules for reporting breaches of personal data protection;
7) ensuring accountability of actions carried out on data collected in the Central Register of Voters;
8) ensuring the accuracy of data processed in the Central Register of Voters.
§ 5. The minister responsible for internal affairs shall ensure the operation of a separate network allowing access to the Central Register of Voters to the authorities referred to in § 8 points 1-4.
§ 6. The minister responsible for foreign affairs shall ensure the operation of a separate network allowing consuls to access the Central Register of Voters.
§ 7. The minister responsible for computerisation shall execute the duties referred to in Article 15 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1, as amended2)).
§ 8. In order to implement the tasks set forth in the Code, the Central Register of Voters is accessed by:
1) mayors;
2) the National Electoral Commission and electoral commissioners, through the National Electoral Office;
3) the minister responsible for computerisation;
4) the minister responsible for foreign affairs;
5) consuls.
§ 9. Verification of the right to elect of residents of the county or region, in the case of tasks carried out by the county or region electoral commission and by the county or region authorities, is carried out through the mayor.
§ 10. Updating of data collected in the Central Register of Voters by the municipality is a task delegated to the municipality.
§ 11. Records in the system logs (logs) of the Central Register of Voters shall be kept for 5 years from the date of their creation.”;
