Registration of campaigners

1. Political organisations and self-nominated natural persons eligible to stand as candidates may apply to the Central Electoral Commission for registration. The registration shall start on the day of announcement of the electoral political campaign and last until the date on which the submission of the declaration documents begins under this Code; in any case, the registration period shall not last less than 14 days.

2. Prospective participants of an electoral political campaign must submit the following documents to the Central Electoral Commission:

1) an application for registration;

2) an identity document, for natural persons;

3) a copy of the property trust agreement signed with the political campaign treasurer;

4) proof that a bank account has been opened exclusively for the purposes of the electoral political campaign on behalf of the registered person (political party/candidate/political committee); and a certificate issued not earlier than three working days before and confirming that the account is empty;

5) a copy of the contract, if any, with a company or auditor for the audit of the political campaign.

3. A political organisation that meets the requirements under this Code for participation in elections shall submit a nomination of another campaigner and indicate the status of the campaigner to be registered under the nomination, as referred to in Article 66(1). Where an independent participant is registered based on the nomination, the political party/political committee shall also submit the documents referred to paragraph (2), points (2) to (5). For registration of represented participants under nomination, documents under paragraph (2), points (3) to (5), shall not be required.

4. Candidates in single-member constituencies and lists of candidates in respect of which no requests from the nominating entities have been submitted for registering them as participants shall be registered as representative participants at the initiative of the Central Electoral Commission. They do not need to submit any registration documents.

5. The decision to register a participant as a campaigner shall be taken by the Chair of the Central Electoral Commission or a member authorised thereby not later than within three working days of receipt of all the documents referred to in this Article.

6. The decision to refuse to register an entity as a campaigner must be motivated and may be appealed under the procedure set out in this Code.

7. The website of the Central Electoral Commission shall publish the following data:

1) lists of registered campaigners and lists of persons for whom registration has been denied;

2) title/name, surname, status (independent or representative participant), constituency name, and contact details (phone number, e-mail address) of a campaigner;

3) name, surname, and contact details (telephone, e-mail address) of the treasurer;

4) company name, company code, telephone, and e-mail address of an auditing company, if any; name, surname, and contact details (telephone, e-mail address) of the auditor, if any.

8. A campaigner shall acquire all the rights and duties of a campaigner on the date of publication on the website of the Central Electoral Commission of the decision of the Chair of the Central Electoral Commission or member of the Commission authorised thereby regarding the registration of the respective campaigner.

9. Contact details shall be published and publicly available until the end of the political campaign.

10. The right to stand as candidates or to nominate candidates or lists of candidates shall be reserved exclusively to the campaigners who are registered under the procedure set out in this Code.

11. The registration of a candidate or a list of candidates shall be cancelled on the date of termination of the campaigner status.