The establishment of violations, the drawing up of statements of findings and the issuance and attack of penalty statements shall comply with the requirements of the Administrative Violations and Penalties Act and the Supreme Administrative Court Act.
§ 1. Within the meaning of this Act:
1. "Identity document" means:
?) identity card;
?) personal (green) passport;
?) military card of a conscript;
?) (overseas) passport of a citizen staying abroad on the election day;
?) sailor’s passport of a citizen on a vessel sailing under the Bulgarian flag on the election day;
2. "Political forces" means parties and coalitions;
3. "Coalition" means an election coalition;
4. "Parliamentary parties and coalitions" means those parties and coalitions which carried at least four per cent of the valid votes at the nationwide level at the previous elections and have had sufficient number of Members of Parliament to have a parliamentary faction throughout the term of office of the previous National Assembly;
5. "Observers" means:
?) representatives of foreign parliaments, the OSCE, foreign parties and movements, as well as persons designated by the parties and coalitions running the elections and invited through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
b) authorised representatives of Bulgarian non-governmental organisations;
6. "Constituency quota" means the quotient of the division of the number of the valid votes cast in the multi-seat constituency by the number of seats allocated to the constituency; where the quotient is not a whole number, the constituency quota is the whole number nearest to that quotient.
§ 2. The Central Election Committee for the elections for the 39th National Assembly shall be the Central Local Election Committee.
§ 3. This Act hereby repeals:
1. The Election of Members of Parliament, Municipal Councillors and Mayors Act (Promulgated, SG, No. 69 of 1991; Amended, Nos. 70, 76 and 98 of 1991; partially repealed with the Local Elections Act ,SG, No. 66 of 1995 concerning the election of municipal councillor and mayors, No. 22 of 1997 – Judgement No. 4 of the Constitutional Court of 1997; Amended, No. 24 of 2000);
2. The People’s Representatives and People’s Councillors Act (Promulgated, SG, No. 32 of 1977; Amended, No. 72 of 1981, Nos. 27 and 87 of 1986, No. 77 of 1991);
3. The Resolution of the Grand National Assembly dated 21 August 1991 on the Access to the National Media during Election Campaigns (SG, No. 71 of 1991);
4. Decree No. 1979 on the Storage of Election Materials (SG, No. 103 of 1976).
§ 4. The provisions of the Public Procurement Act (Promulgated, SG, No. 56 of 1999; Amended, Nos. 92 and 97 of 2000) concerning the time limits prescribed therein shall not apply to the competitive bidding for the computer processing of the results of the election and the production and printing of ballots.
§ 5. The following amendments shall be introduced to the Civil Registration Act (Promulgated, SG, No. 67 of 1999; Amended, No. 28 of 2001):
1. In Art. 95, para 1, the words "or the bodies under Art, 1, para 2 of the Bulgarian Identity Documents Act" shall be inserted after the words "the municipal administration";
2. Para 3 shall be inserted in Art. 114 with the following wording:
"(3) The bodies under Art. 1, para 2 of the Bulgarian Identity Documents Act shall communicate the details of the stated permanent addresses to the ESGRAON registration system within five days.";
3. A new § 6? shall be inserted with the following wording:
"§ 6. The address registration recorded in the personal (green) passport shall be deemed to be the permanent address of citizens who have not specified their permanent address under Art. 95."
§ 6. Prior to the registration of the election tickets with the Constituency Election Committees, the central leaderships of parties and coalitions may request the committees under Art. 4, para 1 and Arty. 4d of the Access Act to the Documents of the Former State Security Service and the Former Intelligence Service of the General Staff to check the persons who have given their consent in writing to be nominated on their election tickets. The check shall be conducted within seven days of the request.
§ 7. This Act shall become effective as from its promulgation in The State Gazette.
This Act was adopted by the 38th National Assembly on 9 April 2001 and the official seal of the National Assembly was affixed hereto.
President of the National Assembly: Yordan Sokolov
