While the Transitional Provisions were valid for the 2003 parliamentary elections, Chapter IV of the Election Code prescribes the “ordinary” composition of the electoral commissions for further elections. The Georgian election administration appropriately is intended to operate at three levels as a centralized system, having a Central Election Commission (CEC), District Election Commissions (DECs) and Precinct Election Commissions (PECs). It is now further provided (Article 17.5 and 31¹) that the Abkhazian and Adjarian autonomous republics also shall have their own CECs. Their task will be to organise elections for the state representative authorities and elective government authorities of the autonomous republics. In elections under the Code, the DECs within the territory of each republic will be subordinate to its CEC.
