Reporting for criminal investigation

(added by Law No. 101/2020, dated 23 July 2020)

1. The CEC shall request regular information from the police and prosecution authorities on the investigation of electoral crimes. The information shall be requested with data on criminal cases, persons under investigation, duration of investigation and its conclusion, prosecutors’ requests for trial, duration and conclusion of trial, data on appeal of judicial decisions, grounds of appeal, as well as details of whether the cases were adjudicated at the Appeal Court or the High Court and the outcome of such judgment. Information about the execution of sentences shall also be part of this information.

2. The information according to point 1 of this Article shall be made available to the CEC no later than 15 days from the date of submission of the information request.

3. The CEC shall be obliged to maintain, update and publish regular statistics on criminal investigations, including all the information specified in point 1 of this Article, and shall inform the Assembly, under a separate section of its periodic or annual reports, about the state of criminal investigations into electoral offences.