(1) The county electoral bureaux, the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts respectively, shall have the following duties:

a) they shall monitor and ensure the unitary application and observance of the provisions of this law, as well as of the resolutions and decisions of the Central Electoral Bureau by all the authorities, institutions and organizations which have responsibilities in electoral matters, throughout the county or the Bucharest Municipality district;

b) they shall provide, together with the prefects and the Permanent Electoral Authority, the training of the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations and of their deputies;

c) they shall solve the objections referring to their own activity, and the petitions regarding the operations of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations and the voting process; the decisions shall be final;

d) they shall distribute, on the basis of a minutes, through the mayors, the ballot papers, the control stamps, the stamps marked “VOTAT”, and the other materials required by the electoral process to the electoral bureaux of the polling stations;

e) they shall centralize the results of the vote counting for the county or the Bucharest Municipality district in which they operate, and shall submit to the Central Electoral Bureau the statements of poll regarding the centralization of the voting results at the level of the administrative-territorial units in which they operate, the statements of poll received from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, the files containing the permanent electoral rolls, and the tables used in the polling stations, as the case may be, as well as all the petitions and objections received;

f) they shall hand over, on the basis of a minutes, to the county courts of law, the Bucharest Court of Law respectively, the null and the contested ballot papers, as well as the other documents and materials in its possession, which are not handed over to the Central Electoral Bureau.

(2) The county electoral bureaux, and the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts shall discharge any other duties incumbent upon them according to this law.

(3) In the discharge of the duties incumbent upon them according to the provisions of this law, the county electoral bureaux, and the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts shall adopt decisions. The decisions shall be mandatory for all the authorities, public institutions, electoral bureaux, and organizations which have responsibilities in electoral matters, as well as for all the participants in the elections they refer to, falling under the territorial jurisdiction of the bureau, and shall be made public by posting or by any other means of advertising.