Prosecutorial Council * 5.2. Low Medium High Rules and procedures for investigations and complaint and dispute resolution The regulations must provide clear guidelines on all legal matters in election dispute resolution, burden of proof, precisely defined types of evidence, legal remedies, and deadlines in the proceedings. Global standards dictate that these procedures must be established in time, before the elections start and all stakeholders must be thoroughly familiar with them. Institution Prioritization* Time frame #1 Consider the possibility to set the deadline for filing complaints in a different way than in the existing legal framework, by providing for the deadlines of subjective nature - 24h from the learning of a violation or omission. Due to the need for the electoral process to run efficiently, the introduction of objective, mandatory deadlines could also be considered (for example, up to seven days). National Assembly, REC, Administrative Court M M #2 Stipulate in more detail situations in election disputes in which public hearings must be held so as to comply with internationally accepted standards, including the right to receive reasonable notice of the lawsuit, a reasonable opportunity to prepare the defense and the right to a fair and impartial process of determining facts, hearings and decisions. When considering an alternate standardization of this issue, the efficiency and speed of the election process must be taken into account. Administrative Court L S #3 Define that the REC, through which an appeal is lodged to the Administrative Court (the deadline is 48 hours) and which is obliged to submit an objection within 24 hours of receiving the appeal, is obligated to submit all documents to the Administrative Court, instead of ‘all necessary documents’ as the current legal solution is worded. This avoids possible triage of documents submitted to the court, which is a way for the REC to affect the REC L S Recommendation 83

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