(1) The manufacturing of the stamps of the county electoral bureaux, of the electoral bureaux of the Bucharest Municipality districts, of the control stamps of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, of the stamp of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, and of the stamps of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall be carried out by the prefects, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs respectively, 10 days at the latest before the election date.

(2) The stamp of the Central Electoral Bureau shall be manufactured by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the stamps marked “VOTAT” shall be manufactured by the “Monetăria Statului” R.A. The stamp marked “VOTAT” must be proportioned in such a way as to be smaller than the quadrilaterals on the ballot papers and smaller than the distance in-between respectively.

(3) In case of loss or theft of some electoral stamps, the hierarchically superior electoral bureaux to those that owned the stamps shall take measures in order to replace them, with the support of the “Monetăria Statului” R.A., of the prefect or of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the case may be.