(1) Within 24 hours of the registration, the Central Electoral Bureau shall make public, by posting at its headquarters, at the seats of the county electoral bureaux, of the districts electoral bureaux of Bucharest Municipality, and at the seat of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad the lists of candidates and independent candidatures received, as well as by means of the Romanian Television Broadcasting Company and of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company.

(2) Up to 45 days before the reference date, the national voters, thecommunity voters, the political parties, the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, the political alliances and the electoral alliances may chalenge the candidatures.

(3) The petitions regarding the admission or rejection of candidaturesshall be submitted in writing to the Bucharest Tribunal and shall be settled by it, within two days at the most of the registration.

(4) The decision may be appealed, within 24 hours of its pronouncement,to the Bucharest Court of Appeal. The appeal shall be settled within two days of its registration. The decision shall be final.*

(5) Within 24 hours of the expiry of the time limits specified in paragraphs(2)–(4), the Central Electoral Bureau shall establish, based on a minutes, the final candidatures and shall communicate to the electoral bureaux the final lists of candidatures and the final lists of independent candidatures submitted, in the order obtained after applying accordingly the provisions of Law No. 373/2004*, with the subsequent amendments and completions.

(6) The order number on the ballot papers of the political parties,organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances and of the electoral alliances which have submitted lists of candidates, as well as of the independent candidates, shall be determined as follows:

a) during the first stage, the lists of candidates of the political parties, of theorganisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances and of the electoral alliances, thereof, that have members in the European Parliament shall be registered in the quadrilaterals on the ballot paper in the order resulted by drawing lots done by the president of the Central Electoral Bureau; the list of the first party, first political alliance, first electoral alliance, first organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities taken out of the ballot box shall be printed in the quadrilateral with order number 1; the list of the second political party, second political alliance, second electoral alliance, second organisation of citizens belonging to national minorities taken out shall be printed in the quadrilateral with order number 2. The printing continues until the lists of candidates of all political parties, political alliances, and of all electoral alliances, as well as those of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities are exhausted;

b) during the second stage, the lists of the political parties, political alliancesand of the electoral alliances, as well as of the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, duly established, that have no members in the European Parliament shall be printed in the following quadrilaterals on the ballot paper, in the order resulted by drawing of lots done by the president of the Central Electoral Bureau.

* Entered into force on 15 February 2013, according to Law No. 76/2012 for the enforcement of Law No. 134/2010 on the Civil Procedure Code, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, No. 365 of 30 May 2012, with the subsequent amendments.

* Law No. 373/2004 on the election to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, No. 887 of 29 September 2004, with the subsequent amendments and completions, was repealed by Article 76 of Law No. 35/2008 on the election to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate and for the amendment and completion of Law No. 67/2004 for the election of local public administration authorities, of Law No. 215/2001 of the local public administration and of Law No. 393/2004 on the Statute of local elected officials, published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 196 of 13 March 2008, with the subsequent amendments and completions.