§ Electoral Code art. 45Relieving of duties at the permanent place of work or summoning electoral

Relieving of duties at the permanent place of work or summoning electoral
officials. Method of remuneration and guarantees for electoral officials
(1) The Central Electoral Commission shall determine by decision the number of
members of electoral bodies and officials of their work apparatus who may be relieved of
duties at the permanent place of work or summoned and the deadline for such
reliefs/summonses.
(2) The electoral constituency council shall, as a rule, at its first establishment meeting,
adopt a decision appointing members relieved from duties at the permanent place of work
and/or summoned within the deadlines set by the Central Electoral Commission in accordance
with paragraph (1). This shall also contain the proposal for approval of the organisation chart
of the council’s apparatus. This decision shall be forwarded immediately to the electoral body
establishing the electoral council concerned, but no later than 3 days after its establishment.
(3) The electoral bureau of the polling station at the first meeting, shall, as a rule, adopt
a decision appointing members relieved from duties at the permanent place of work or
convened within the deadlines set by the Central Electoral Commission in accordance with
paragraph (1). It shall forward it immediately, but no later than 3 days after the establishment
of that bureau, to the electoral constituency council, which shall decide, within its remit, on the
relieving/summoning of members of the electoral bureaux.
(4) The relieving/summoning and approval of the organisation chart shall be carried
out by the electoral body establishing the council and/or the electoral bureau concerned.
(5) In respect of their activity during the electoral period, relieved persons from
budgetary institutions or units other than budgetary institutions and units summoned shall
receive an allowance, calculated based on the average national salary for the preceding year
and paid out of the financial means allocated for the elections.
(6) The salary of members of electoral bodies and officials of the electoral constituency
council who are relieved of their duties at the permanent place of work in the budgetary
institutions shall be retained at their permanent place of work.
(7) Civil servants who are members of electoral bodies and officials of their work
apparatus, who are relieved of duties at their permanent place of work for the electoral period,
shall retain their status of civil servant.
(8) For their work during the electoral period, including in the election day, unrelieved
and unsummoned members of electoral bodies, as well as officials of electoral bureaux
apparatus, shall be set an allowance for 20 per cent of the average national salary for the
previous year, paid out of the financial means allocated for the elections.
(9) The electoral constituency council shall be assisted by a work apparatus whose
organisation chart shall be approved by the Central Electoral Commission on a proposal from
the electoral constituency council. The organisation chart of the apparatus shall include
accounting units (including an accounting officer), specialists (consultants, operators) and
other technical staff. In respect of their activity during the electoral period, officials of the
electoral constituency council shall receive an allowance, calculated according to the average
national salary for the previous year and paid out of the financial means allocated for the
elections.
(10) Depending on the type of election organised, the electoral bureau shall be
assisted by a work apparatus made up of operators of the State Automated Information
System ‘Elections’ and other technical staff. The electoral council shall adopt a decision
appointing, on a proposal from the electoral bureau, and determining the period of service of
staff employed in the work apparatus assisting the electoral bureau.
(11) The basis for payment of the allowance in accordance with the conditions laid
down in paragraphs (5), (8) to (10) shall be the decisions on the establishment and
modification of the composition of the electoral bodies and on the relieves/summonses of
electoral officials.
(12) Where two ballots are being held simultaneously and in the cases laid down in
Articles 8 (2) and 158, electoral officials shall be entitled to an increase of 5% to 10% of the
allowance laid down in accordance with paragraphs (5), (8) to (10).
(13) Where necessary, individual employment or service agreements may be
concluded for the period of performance of specified activities. Expenditure shall be made
from the means allocated for elections/referenda.
(14) Under the conditions of the tax legislation, the allowance paid to unrelieved or
unsummoned electoral civil servants, in respect of work carried out in electoral bodies, shall
qualify as a source of non-taxable income.
(15) Members of electoral bodies and officials of their work apparatus shall, as a rule,
enjoy one day off immediately after the election day, granted under the conditions laid down
in the Labour Code.