(1) The Central Election Commission shall register only such lists of candidates the submitters of which have paid the security deposit of EUR 1400 in the deposit of the Central Election Commission.

(2) The payer of the security deposit shall indicate in the payment order by whom the security deposit has been made, the time when the security deposit was made, and the name of the list of candidates for which the deposit has been made.

(3) The security deposit paid shall confer the right to submit the lists of candidates bearing the same name for all constituencies and it shall be returned to the payer if the list of candidates bearing such name has received at least two or more per cent from the number of valid votes cast.

(4) The security deposit paid for the list of candidates bearing such name which has received less than two per cent of the number of valid votes cast shall be transferred by the Central Election Commission to the State budget.

[30 May 2002; 12 September 2013; 6 February 2014; 18 January 2018]