Article 15 entrusts the CEC with the verification of signatures that may amount either to register the initiative, or to set the time limits to complete or correct the inaccuracies, or finally to reject the initiative if it does not meet the legislative form (signatures not collected on the template approved by the CEC) or the required number of 20.000 voters. The verification procedure is a compulsory element of the legislative initiative to guarantee that the requirements to propose a draft law are fulfilled. The CEC is competent to verify the signatures and has access to the civil register. The time-limits for this process are short (30 days from their submission, in case of inconsistencies, 2 days from their resubmission). It would be suitable to provide for a flexible presentation of collected signatures so that the initiative group would have the right to submit the signatures for verification before the collection of signatures is finished in order to speed up the process and provide the CEC more time for the verification. An alternative would be to start the verification process in case at least 15,000 signatures are collected to avoid a situation where the CEC would have to verify the signatures in case the initiative does not enjoy public support.