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ALBANIA - Electoral Code (2008)

Article 108;

ALBANIA - Electoral Code (2015)

Article 108;

ARMENIA - Electoral Code (2021)

Article 66;

ARMENIA - Electoral Code (2022)

Article 66 ;

ARMENIA - Electoral Code (2016)

Article 66;

ARMENIA - Electoral Code (2018)

Article 66;

ARMENIA- Electoral Code (2007)

Article 5;

BELARUS - Electoral Code (2000)

Article 52;

BELARUS - Electoral Code (2015)

Article 52;

BELARUS - Electoral Code (2013)

Article 52;

BELGIUM - Electoral Code (2014)

Article 147 (bis);

BiH – Election Law last (amended 2024) (2001)

Article 5 (19);

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA - Election Law (2022)

Article 5 (19);

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Election Law (2018)

Article 5 (19);

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Election Law (2022)

Article 5 (8); Article 5 (10 ); Article 5 (19 ); Article 9 (12g); Article 9 (12h);

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Election Law (2022)

Article 5 (19);

BULGARIA - Election Code (2019)

Article 428; Article 430;

BULGARIA - Election Code (2020)

Article 428; Article 430;

BULGARIA - Election Code (2021)

Article 428; Article 430;

BULGARIA - Election Code (2014)

Article 236 ;

BULGARIA - Election Code (2023)

Article 236;

BULGARIA- Presidential Elections Act (1991)

Article 11f (f);

CANADA - Canada Elections Act (2023)

Paragraph 157;

CANADA - Elections Act (2019)

Article 237 (1);

CROATIA - Act on Amendments to the Act on the Election of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (2015)

Article 2;

CROATIA - Parliamentary Elections Act (2015)

Article 3;

CZECH REPUBLIC - Act on Elections to the Parliament (2006)

Article 19;

DENMARK - Local and Regional Government Elections Act (2024)

Section 55; Section 68;

DENMARK - Parliamentary Elections Act (2024)

Section 12 (c);

FINLAND - Elections Act (2016)

Section 17; Section 2;

GEORGIA - Election Code (2021)

Article 65;

GEORGIA - Election Code (2016)

Article 65;

GEORGIA - Election Code (2018)

Article 65;

GERMANY - Federal Elections Act (2013)

Article 33; Article 36; Section 14 ;

GERMANY - Federal Electoral Regulations (1994)

Article 19; Article 28; Article 34;

GERMANY - Federal Electoral Regulations (2017)

Section 65; Section 66;

GERMANY - Federal Electoral Regulations as of 2020 (2020)

Section 66;

GERMANY – Federal Elections Act (amended March 2024) (1993)

Section 14;

GERMANY – Federal Electoral Regulations (2002)

Section 66;

HUNGARY - Act XXXVI of 2013 on election procedure (2024)

Section 181;

HUNGARY - Act XXXVI of 2013 on election procedure (as of December 2024) (2025)

Section 181; Section 3;

HUNGARY - Act XXXVI of 2013 on Electoral Procedure (2018)

Section 285; Section 3;

HUNGARY - Act XXXVI of 2013 on Electoral Procedure (2013)

Section 179; Section 181; Section 185; Section 257; Section 3;

HUNGARY - Act XXXVI on Election Procedure (2021)

Section 181; Section 3;

ICELAND - Elections Act (2021)

Article 74;

KOREA - Public Offical Election Act (2014)

Article 157;

KOSOVO - Law No. 03/L-072 on Local Elections (2008)

Article 24;

KYRGYZ REPUBLIC - Electoral Code (2004)

Article 40;

LATVIA - Law on the Election of Local Government Councils (2020)

Section 32. (1);

LATVIA - Saeima Election Law (2022)

Section 25. ;

LATVIA - The Saeima Election Law (1995)

Article 24;

LATVIA - The Saeima Election Law (2014)

Article 21;

LITHUANIA - Law on Elections to Municipal Councils (2012)

Article 4;

LITHUANIA - Law on Elections to the Seimas (2012)

Article 4; Article 5; Article 66; Article 67; Article 71;

LITHUANIA - Law on Elections to the Seimas (2016)

Article 4; Article 66; Article 71;

LITHUANIA - Law on Elections to the Seimas (2018)

Article 4;

LITHUANIA - Law on Presidential Elections (2012)

Article 56; Article 61;

LITHUANIA - Law on Presidential Elections (2013)

Article 56; Article 57; Article 61;

LITHUANIA - Law on the Elections to the European Parliament (2003)

Article 5; Article 6; Article 64; Article 65; Article 69;

MALTA - General Elections Act (2023)

Article 71;

MEXICO - General Law on Electoral Institutions and Procedures of Mexico (2014)

Article 337;

MOLDOVA - Electoral Code (2019)

Article 81;

MOLDOVA - Electoral Code 2016 and 2017 Law for Amending and Completing Certain Legislative Acts (Electoral System for the Election of Parliament) (2017)

Article 53; Article I. (21);

MOLDOVA – Electoral Code (amended 2025) (2025)

Article 5; Article 78; Article 79;

MONTENEGRO - Law on Election of Councillors and Representatives (2023)

Article 84;

MONTENEGRO- Law on the Election of Councillors and Representatives (2002)

Article 84;

NETHERLANDS - Elections Act (2013)

Section B6; Section K2; Section L1; Section L10; Section L11; Section L12; Section L14; Section L17; Section L2; Section L3; Section L4; Section L5; Section L6; Section L8; Section L9; Section T4;

NORTH MACEDONIA - ELECTORAL CODE (2019)

Article 107;

POLAND - Election Code (2019)

Article 270; Article 51; Article 54; Article 55; Article 56; Article 57; Article 58; Article 59; Article 60; Article 61; Article 75;

POLAND - Election Code (2011)

Article 51; Article 511; Article 512; Article 54; Article 55; Article 56; Article 57; Article 58; Article 59; Article 60;

POLAND - Election Code Amendments (2023)

Article 55; Article 56;

PORTUGAL - Electoral Law (2015)

Article 50; Article 79;

REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA – Electoral Code (2022)

Article 2; Article 6 ;

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA - Electoral Code (2022)

Article 5; Article 7; Article 78; Article 79;

ROMANIA - Law No. 208 (2015)

Article 3 ;

ROMANIA - LAW No. 208 of 20 July 2015 on the election of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, as well as on the organisation and functioning of the Permanent Electoral Authority (2024)

Article 3;

ROMANIA - Law No. 370 (2024)

Article 44;

ROMANIA - Law on the Election of the President of Romania (2022)

Article 44;

ROMANIA - Law on the Election of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, as well as the Organisation and Functioning of the Permanente Electoral Authority (2020)

Article 3;

ROMANIA- Regulations on The Elections To The Chamber of Deputies and The Senate (2008)

Article 42;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens to Participate in a Referendum (2002)

Article 64;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Federal Law on Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum (2011)

Article 64;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Federal Law on Elections of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2016)

Article 81;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Federal Law on Presidential Elections in the Russian Federation (2011)

Article 69; Article 71;

SAN MARINO - Compilation of Electoral Legislation ()

Article 35;

SERBIA - Law on the Election of Representatives (2000)

Article 67; Article 68; Article 69; Article 70; Article 71; Article 72; Article 73;

SLOVAKIA - Act on Election of the President of the Slovak Republic, Plebiscite, Recalling of President and Amending of some other Acts (2008)

Article 1 (Section 21);

SLOVAKIA - Act on Elections to the National Council (2004)

Section 30;

SLOVENIA - National Assembly Elections Act (2017)

Article 81; Article 82; Article 9;

SLOVENIA - National Assembly Elections Act (2024)

Article 81; Article 82; Article 9 ;

SLOVENIA - National Assembly Elections Act (2006)

Article 81; Article 82; Article 9;

SLOVENIA – National Assembly Election Act (as of February 2024) (1992)

Article 81; Article 82; Article 9;

SLOVENIA- National Assembly Elections Act (2000)

Article 8;

SPAIN - Representation of the People Institutional Act (2011)

Article 76; Article 77; Article 78;

SWEDEN - Elections act (2021)

7.10; 7.3; 7.5; 7.6; 7.7; 7.8; 7.9;

SWEDEN - Elections Act (2005)

Article 10 (Chapter 7); Article 4 (Chapter 7); Article 4 (Chapter 11); Article 5 (Chapter 7); Article 5 (Chapter 9); Article 5 (Chapter 12); Article 6 (Chapter 7); Article 7 (Chapter 7); Article 8 (Chapter 7); Article 9 (Chapter 7);

SWITZERLAND - Federal Act on Political Rights (2022)

Article 5 ;

SWITZERLAND - Federal Act on Political Rights (2015)

Article 5;

THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA - Electoral Code (2015)

Article 107;

TÜRKIYE - Law on Basic Provisions on Elections and Voter Registers with Amendments made by Laws 7062, 7102 and 7140 (2018)

Article 86;

TÜRKIYE - Parliamentary Elections (1983)

Article 3;

UKRAINE - Law on Elections of the People's Deputies (2016)

Article 8. ; Article 85.;

UKRAINE - Law on Elections of the President (2004)

Article 8;

UNITED KINGDOM - Elections Act (2022)

Article 1; Article 2 ; Article 4; Article 6;

UNITED KINGDOM - Elections Act (2024)

1; 2; 4; 6;

ALBANIA - Opinion on the Scope of the Power of the President to set the Dates of Elections (2019)

Paragraph 67;

ALBANIA- Joint Opinion on the Electoral Code (2009)

Paragraph 81;

ARMENIA - Joint Opinion on the Draf Electoral Code (As of 18 April 2016) (2016)

Paragraph 64; Paragraph 65; Paragraph 66;

GEORGIA - Joint opinion on draft amendments to the Election Code and the Law on Political Associations of Citizens (2022)

Paragraph 15;

GEORGIA - Joint Opinion on the Draft Law on Amendments and Additions to the Organic Law on Political Unions of Citizens (2011)

Paragraph 6;

GEORGIA - Joint Urgent Opinion on Draft Amendments to the Election Code (2021)

Paragraph 77;

GEORGIA - Opinion on the Unified Election Code (2002)

Paragraph 94;

GEORGIA - Opinion on the Unified Election Code (2004)

Paragraph 11; Paragraph 38;

HUNGARY - Joint Opinion on the 2020 Amendments to the Electoral Legislation (2021)

Paragraph 44;

Report on Electoral Law and Electoral Administration in Europe (2020)

Paragraph 216; Paragraph 219; Paragraph 221; Paragraph 222; Paragraph 64;

Report out-of Country Voting (2011)

Paragraph 56; Paragraph 59; Paragraph 75; Paragraph 97;

Revised Code of Good Practice on Referendums (2022)

3.2;

Summary Report on Voters Residing de Facto Abroad (2015)

Paragraph 30; Paragraph 36;

UKRAINE - Joint Opinion on the Draft Amendments to the Laws on Election of People's Deputies and on the Central Election Commission and on the Draft Law on Repeat Elections of Ukraine (2013)

Paragraph 86;

UKRAINE - Joint Opinion on the Draft Law on Elections of People's Deputies (2011)

Paragraph 106;

UNITED KINGDOM - Opinion on the Electoral Law (2007)

Paragraph 37; Paragraph 44;

Report on the compatibility of remote voting and electronic voting with the standards of the Council of Europe (2004)

Paragraph 16; Paragraph 33;