Who is responsible for checking the legality of initiatives?

Law on National Referendums, Legislative Initiativesand European Citizens? Initiative (lastamended in 2012)

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Article 23

(1) To collect signatures for a draft law or draft amendments to theConstitution, an initiative group shall be set up.

(2) An initiative group may be:

1) a political party or association of political parties;

2) an association of at least 10 electors associated and registered inaccordance with the Associations and Foundations Law.

(3) The initiative group shall submit to the Central Election Commission anapplication and the draft law or draft amendments to the Constitution for whichit is planned to collect signatures of the electors.

(4)The Central Election Commission shall take one of the following decisionwithin 45 days:

(1) to register the draft law or draft amendments to the Constitution;

(2) to set a timeframe for rectifying any faults established in the draftlaw or draft amendments to the Constitution;

3) to refuse the registration of the draft law or draft amendments to theConstitution in the cases listed in paragraph 5 of this Article.

(5) The Central Election Commission shall refuse the registration of thedraft law or draft amendments to the Constitution if:

1) the initiative group does not comply with the requirements underparagraph 2 of this Article;

2) the draft law or draft amendments to the Constitution are not completelyevolved by form or contents.

(6) The Central Election Commission, in deciding upon a draft law or draftamendments to the Constitution submitted by an initiative group, may requestadditional information, explanations and opinions from state and localgovernment institutions required for deciding the matter as well as call inexperts.

(As amended by the 8 November 2012 Law.)