(1) The electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall be made of 9 members at the most, of which one president, one deputy, and of 7 members at the most suggested by the political organisations which participate to the elections. The electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall not function with less than 3 members.
(2) The presidents of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations abroad and their alternates shall be appointed by the heads of the diplomatic missions and consular offices. The appointment is done based on the requests from citizens that enjoy the right to vote, signed and dated, which include the data referred to in Article 16 paragraph (4) letter (b) of Law no. 208/2015, as subsequently amended and supplemented, sent by post, fax or email or filed with the diplomatic missions and consular offices. The appointment of the presidents of the bureaus of the polling stations abroad and of their alternates shall be entered into the minutes, which represent the deeds of investiture and which are notified to the electoral bureau for the polling sections abroad. The procedure for the appointment of the presidents of the bureaus of the polling stations abroad and of their alternates shall start 45 days before the first voting day abroad, as the locations of the polling stations abroad are established, and shall end 15 days before the first voting day abroad, at the latest, being made public by posting on the Website of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad.
(3) The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station abroad and her/his alternate, who fulfil the tasks assigned to computer operators must attend a training session in this regard. The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station abroad and the alternate may, in justified cases, not be present at the activity of the electoral bureau of the polling station abroad, provided that their absence is not simultaneous The electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad may, by decision, in justified cases, establish a presence schedule for the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station abroad and for her/his deputy at the activity of the electoral bureau of the polling station.
(4) Within 5 days, at the most, from the date of appointment of the president of the electoral bureau of a polling station abroad and of her/his alternate, the political groups having made nominations that remained final shall send to the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, by electronic means, the lists with their representatives in the respective polling station abroad, including the names, surnames, telephone numbers, emails and personal identification numbers of the holders and their alternates, accompanied by their declarations of acceptance. A political party may have one holder and two alternates, which can replace the holder, for each polling station. In order to carry out the tasks assigned to computer operators, the representatives of the political groups must attend a training session in this regard. The alternates may temporarily replace the holders only when these cannot participate in the activity of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations abroad.
(41) Within 5 days, at the most, from the expiry of the time limit set in paragraph (4), the president of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall complete the electoral bureaus of the polling stations abroad, whose presidents and alternates have been appointed. In this composition, the electoral bureaus of the polling stations abroad shall fulfil all the duties provided by this law. The operations aimed at completing the electoral bureaus of the polling stations abroad shall be entered in the minutes, which represent the deeds of investiture, being made public by posting on the Website of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad.
(42) The operations aimed at completing the electoral bureaus of the polling stations abroad must be finalised no later than 10 days before the first voting day abroad.
(43) After being invested as members of an electoral bureau of the polling station abroad, the president, her/his alternate and the other members must carry out their duties according to the law, while being held accountable for the proper management of the materials handed over to them for conducting the electoral process.
(44) In the situation where, up to 10 days before the first voting day, the electoral bureaus of the polling stations abroad do not have a sufficient number of members to fulfil the duties of the computer operators, these can be completed by the president of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad with personnel provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as by other public authorities, at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The travel and accommodation costs for the personnel sent abroad as members of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations shall be borne by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
(5) In the event that the number of the persons appointed by the political organisations is insufficient in order to fill the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad, these shall be filled with Romanian citizens with right to vote appointed by the heads of the diplomatic missions or of the consular offices, as the case may be.
(6) With the exception from the provisions of paragraph (1), if the president of the electoral bureau of a polling station abroad notices that, prior to the election day or in the exact day of the election, the number of the members of the electoral bureau is insufficient for the good conduct of the voting, he may supplement the number of the members of the respective electoral bureau, with 15 members at the most, with the approval of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad. The completion may be made with the additional deputies appointed by the political parties political parties or, if their number is insufficient, with any Romanian citizen with right to vote, being furthermore registered in the minutes.
(7) The total expenditure on transportation, accommodations, food, and other everyday expenses of the members of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall be borne by those who appoint them.
