a)          § 1 and 2 shall read as follows:

Ҥ 1. Voters residing abroad and holding valid Polish passports or, in the case of European Union citizens who are not Polish citizens, holding valid passports or other identification documents, are included in the electoral register compiled and updated by the territorially competent consul.

§ 2. The inclusion of the voter in the electoral register compiled by the consul is made upon the voter’s application filed by the 5th day before election day:

1)           in writing recorded in paper form, bearing a handwritten signature;

2)           using an electronic service made available by the minister responsible for foreign affairs;

3)           to the consul’s e-mail address as a digital reproduction of the application bearing a handwritten signature.”,

b)         after § 2, § 2a and 2b shall be added and read as follows:

“§ 2a. The application referred to in § 2 shall contain the surname and name(s), PESEL personal identification number, number of a valid Polish passport, the voter’s address abroad and contact information in the scope including e-mail address or mobile phone number. In the case of citizens of the European Union who are not Polish citizens, the application shall contain the number of another valid identity document, as well as the place and date of its issuance.

§ 2b. In order to verify the voter’s data, the consul shall have access to the data contained in the PESEL register referred to in the Act of 24 September 2010 on the Population Register and in the register of passport documents referred to in the Act of 27 January 2022 on Passport Documents (Journal of Laws, item 350 and 583).”

c)          § 3 and 4 shall read as follows:

“§ 3. The provisions of Article 32 § 1, 4, 5, 8 and 9 shall apply accordingly to voters referred to in § 1 except that the certificate shall be issued by the consul who compiled the electoral register.

§ 4. The minister responsible for foreign affairs, in consultation with the minister responsible for computerisation, after consulting the National Electoral Commission, shall determine, by ordinance:

1)           template of the electoral register referred to in § 1 and the manner of its compilation and updating,

2)           template of the certificate of the right to vote, the manner of issuing and recording these certificates

bearing in mind the importance of ensuring the verifiability of the data contained in the electoral register, the security of the entry and processing of this data, the protection of the certificate from forgery, the determination of the means of secure receipt of the certificate and the principle that one can be included in only one electoral register.”;