(1) A request for issuing a certificate of eligibility in respect of a Danish citizen wishing to stand as a candidate in local and regional elections in another member state of the European Union must be submitted to the Minister for the Interior and Health.

(2) A certificate of eligibility can be issued in respect of a Danish citizen with the content that the Minister for the Interior and Health has no knowledge that he or she should have been deprived of his or her eligibility for local and regional councils in Denmark. If the Minister for the Interior and Health has knowledge that he or she should have been deprived of his or her eligibility for local and regional councils in Denmark, cf. section 4, the certificate of noneligibility shall carry a note to this effect and information on the date when the relevant criminal offence no longer results in the forfeiture of eligibility, cf. section 4(3).

(3) The Minister for the Interior and Health may obtain criminal record certificates from the Danish National Police for public use for the issue of the certificates of eligibility mentioned in subsection (1). On request, a mayor or a chairman of the regional council shall give the Minister for the Interior and Health the information required to issue such certificates.