§ Art. I-23Publicity and Transparency of the Election Process

1. The elections provided for by this Code shall be conducted in a public and transparent
manner.
 2. The election commissions that prepare for and conduct the respective election shall ensure the
public nature and transparency of the election process by:
 1) informing citizens of the composition, location and working schedule of election
 commissions; the establishment of the election districts and election precincts; and the
 main rights of voters, including the right to challenge illegal decisions, actions or
 inaction of election commissions and their members, and state executive bodies, bodies
 of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, local self-government bodies, enterprises,
 establishments, institutions and organizations, and their heads and other officials who
 violate or restrict electoral rights;
 2) ensuring that voters, other electoral subjects of the respective electoral process have the
 opportunity to familiarize themselves with the voter lists, election programs of parties
 (local party organizations), candidates, electoral lists of parties (party organizations),
 and information on candidates;
 3) providing voters with explanation of voting procedures, including the procedure of
 filling out ballot papers;
 4) making public the results of the voting and the results of the respective election;
 5) providing other information in the cases and in accordance with the procedure stipulated
 by this Code.
 3. Decisions of state executive bodies, bodies of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and
local self-government bodies relating to elections shall be made public by the aforementioned
bodies in accordance with the procedure established by the Law.
 4. All decisions of the Central Commission shall be immediately published on its official
website with the ability to view, copy and print the information, as well as in the form of a data set
organized in a way to allow its automated processing by electronic means (machine reading) for
the purpose of reuse.
 District election commissions in national elections shall submit all their decisions to the Central
Election Commission in electronic form no later than on the day following the day of their adoption.

 

These decisions of district election commissions shall be published on the official website of the Central
Election Commission after their receipt with the possibility to view and print the information.
 Territorial election commissions publish their decisions on their official websites (if available), the
websites of the respective local councils (if available) or in another manner specified by this Code.
 District and territorial election commissions shall submit all their decisions for publication on the
official websites of the respective regional or territorial offices of the Central Election Commission no
later than on the day following the day of their adoption. These decisions of district and territorial
election commissions shall be published on the official websites of the respective regional or territorial
offices of the Central Election Commission.
 5. When holding national elections, foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine, at which out-
of-country election precincts are established, shall ensure the publication on their official websites
or in another manner of the information about the time and place of voting, about the location of
respective election commissions and voting premises, as well as the procedure and deadlines for
applying to precinct election commissions, in particular, with regard to a voter’s inclusion in the
voter list for an out-of-country election precinct, the voting procedure and the procedure for filling
out the ballot paper.
 6. The National Agency for the Corruption Prevention shall ensure the publication of financial
reports on the receipt and use of election funds submitted by the managers of the respective election
funds in the public part of the Unified State Register of Political Parties Reporting on Property, Income,
Expenditures and Liabilities of a Financial Nature.
 7. The National Agency for the Corruption Prevention monitors the timely submission of reports
on the receipt and use of resources of electoral funds in national and local elections, the completeness
and accuracy of the information provided in the reports.
 8. The day before the day of voting, bodies of the National Police of Ukraine shall on their official
websites publish preliminary information on the number of registered complaints about violations of
the electoral legislation during the respective election process and clarification of responsibility for
violations of the electoral legislation. Within ten days after the day of voting, the National Police of
Ukraine shall publish on the official website summary information on the number of initiated criminal
proceedings and the number of complaints registered by the bodies of the National Police of Ukraine
related to violations of electoral legislation during the respective election process.