(1) The manufacturing of the stamps of the county electoral bureaux, the Bucharest Municipality districts electoral bureaux, and of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall be carried out by the prefects. The manufacturing of the stamp of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad and of the stamps of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall be carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

(2) The stamp of the Central Electoral Bureau, and the stamps marked“VOTED” shall be manufactured by the Ministry of Administration and Interior.

(3) The ballot papers, the control stamps, the stamps marked “VOTED”,the forms for the conclusion of the statements of poll, the copies of the electoral rolls, the forms of the additional electoral rolls, as well as other material required by the electoral process shall be taken over by the prefect, together with the president of the county or district electoral bureau, on a minutes basis, and shall be preserved in special rooms, locked and sealed. Such material shall be distributed by mayors to the presidents of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, on a minutes basis, two days at the latest prior to the elections. For the polling stations abroad, the taking and handing over of this material shall be done, on a minutes basis, by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling stations abroad, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

(4) The delivery and distribution of ballot papers shall be carried out in sealedpackages of 100 pieces each or multiples of 100 pieces on a minutes basis. (5) On the day preceding the elections, at the premises of each polling station there shall be posted a ballot paper, stamped and annulled, by the president of the electoral bureau of the county, of the Bucharest Municipality district or of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, where appropriate.