Terms of Registration of MP Candidates

1. The Central Election Commission shall register MP candidates included in the nationwide and regional electoral lists, provided the following documents have been submitted:

1) an application on registration of MP candidates signed by the party’s head and affixed with the party’s seal;

2) a decision of a party’s congress (meeting, conference) on the nomination of MP candidates from the party, provided for in Part 13 of Article 154 of this Code, together with the approved nationwide electoral list and all regional electoral lists of MP candidates, assigned by the party to the respective electoral regions, referred to in Article 138 of this Code, which shall be appended to this decision and shall deem an integral part thereof, in a form established by the Central Election Commission, both as a paper copy, which shall necessarily contain the information specified, respectively, in Parts 15 and 16 of Article 154 of this Code, certified by the signature of the party’s head and affixed with the party’s seal, and an electronic copy thereof;

3) a party’s election program, prepared in the state language, having the volume up to 7800 printed characters, approved by the party’s congress (meeting, conference), both as a paper copy, certified by the signature of the party’s head and affixed with the party’s seal, and an electronic copy thereof;

4) a document certifying that a financial deposit has been made by a party in accordance with Article 156 of this Code;

5) statements of the persons included in the party’s electoral lists expressing consent to be nominated as that party’s MP candidate (including that in the respective electoral region). Such statements shall also contain an MP candidate’s consent to the publication of his or her biographical information as well as processing his or her personal data in connection with participation in the election, with acknowledgement of the obligation, in the event of being elected as an MP, to transfer, within one month from the day of the official promulgation of the election results, to another person, pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the Law, the management of enterprises and corporate rights owned by the MP candidate (or indicating absence thereof), as well as the acknowledgement of the obligation to terminate any activities or lay down any representative mandate which are incompatible with the mandate of an MP of Ukraine under the Constitution and the Laws of Ukraine, or indicating absence thereof;

6) a statement of each MP candidate, confirming him or her being or not being a citizen (national) of another state, or a citizen (national) of states other than Ukraine;

7) the autobiography of MP candidates, in both paper and electronic form, which shall necessarily include the following information: last name, first name (all first names), patronymic name (if any), all previous last names, first names, patronymic names and dates of their change (if a person has changed his or her last name and/or first name (one of his or her first names or all first names) and/or patronymic name, in the period over the last five years prior to the day of voting), the day, month, year and place of birth, citizenship with indication of time of residing in the territory of Ukraine, information about the educational attainment, job position (occupation), place of employment, party membership, address of place of residence, presence or absence of a representative mandate, telephone number, information on presence or absence of a criminal record, date of autobiography and a signature of an MP candidate (in printed form);

8) a statement by MP candidates on presence (absence) of arrears of child support in the amount exceeding the amount of the respective payments for six months, from the date of presentation to him or her of an enforcement document;

9) one photograph on paper, sized 4x6 cm, and in an electronic format, of each of the MP candidates;

10) photocopies of the first and second page of each MP candidate’s passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the form of a passport book or photocopies of the front and reverse page of a passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the form of the card.

Should the Central Election Commission find discrepancies between the party’s nationwide and regional electoral lists provided in both paper and electronic form, a paper copy shall prevail.

2. The Central Election Commission shall issue to a person who has submitted documents provided for by Part one of this Article, a certificate confirming the receipt of such documents. The certificate shall contain a list of documents received, the day, month, year and time of their receipt, and the position and last name of the person who received the documents.

Documents for registration of MP candidates may be submitted to the Central Election Commission by means of electronic services in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission.

In this case, the accuracy of copies of documents provided for in Part one of this Article may be certified by the head of the respective party, taking into account the requirements of the laws of Ukraine "On electronic documents and electronic document management" and "On electronic trust services".

3. The Central Election Commission shall not accept the documents specified in Part one of this Article, if they are submitted after expiry of the deadline specified in Part two of Article 158 of this Code.

In case of violation of the deadline prescribed, as well as in case of submission of documents by mail (including e-mail, in a different manner than established by the Central Election Commission), as well as in another manner without taking into account the requirements of this Code, documents for MP candidate registration shall not be considered by the Central Election Commission and shall be returned by way of a letter from the member of the Central Election Commission on behalf of the head of the Central Election Commission.

4. Persons nominated as MP candidates shall be held responsible for the authenticity and accuracy of the data in the documents specified in clauses 5-8 of Part one of this Article, filed with the Central Election Commission for the registration of MP candidates.