§ Art. I-47Main Principles of Information Support to Elections

1. Voters, including those with visual or auditory disabilities, shall be provided with an
opportunity to access diverse, objective and unbiased information necessary for making an
informed free choice.
 In order to ensure access to information for persons with visual or auditory disabilities, such
information may be provided using accessible formats in the manner and in the scope specified by the
Central Election Commission.
 2. The information contained in the documents submitted to the respective election
commission for the registration of candidates shall be open. District and territorial election
commissions shall submit the information indicated in Part three of this Article for its publication
on the official website of the Central Election Commission, pursuant to the procedure specified by
this Code. Such information may be made public and provided in accordance with the procedure
specified by the Law of Ukraine “On Access to Public Information”.
 3. In accordance with the procedure provided for in this Code, territorial election
commissions shall publish information on registered candidates on their websites (if available), or
on the websites of the respective councils or in any other manner determined by these commissions,
as well as, pursuant to this Code, they shall provide information on candidates, to the extent and
in the manner established by the Central Election Commission, for the purposes of publication on
the official website of the Central Election Commission. Information on registered candidates may
be published on the official websites of the respective regional or territorial representations of the
Central Election Commission in case of their formation. When conducting elections, the Central
Election Commission shall post on its official website the information in a form of the data set
organized in the format that makes it possible to process the data automatically by electronic means

 

(a machine readable format) so that the data may be re-used, in particular, the information on each
candidate’s last name, first name (all first names), and patronymic name (if any), date, month, year
and place of birth, citizenship, time of residence in the territory of Ukraine (except for candidates
registered to participate in local elections), information on position (occupation), place of
employment, party membership, place of residence, existence or absence of criminal record, the
nominating subject, the election programs of candidates or subjects of their nominations, and when
holding the national election, the autobiography of the candidate submitted to the Central Election
Commission.
 4. The election commissions, mass media and information agencies, state executive bodies,
state bodies of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, bodies of local self-government, their
officials, public associations, as well as other persons shall, when disseminating information on
the elections that shall not be considered election campaigning, pursuant to Article 51 of this Code,
abide by the principles of unbiased, unprejudiced, balanced, reliable, complete and accurate
information, and to avoid discrimination and sexism.