(1) Minutes of election commission meetings and polling station commission meetings shall be taken, and they shall be signed by commissions’ chairpersons and secretaries. Decisions of the commission shall be recorded in the minutes.
(2) Documents (complaints, statements, references, standard forms of ballot papers, etc.) concerning matters discussed are to be attached to the minutes in the order the matters were discussed. The minutes of the meetings shall be arranged in a chronological file.
(3) A separate file shall be opened for each list of candidates submitted for council elections. The file should contain the list of candidates, documents concerning the list in general (bank receipt, authorisations of submitters) followed by all the documents concerning each candidate (statements, declarations, etc.) in the sequence their names are put on the list.
(4) The above-mentioned documents must be transferred to the local government's records department, where they are processed and deposited in the archives for permanent storage.
