Electoral Code of Conduct and Electoral Dispute Regulations (Le Moniteur, 5 May 2016)

Two instruments published together in Le Moniteur, 171st year, No. 82, of Thursday 5 May 2016: the Electoral Code of Conduct, dated April 2016, and the Electoral Dispute Regulations. The code is adopted by the CEP under the amended 1987 Constitution, the civil-service statute of 22 July 2005, the general regulations of 12 October 2005 as revised on 18 January 2008, the electoral decree of 2 March 2015 and the arrêté of 29 March 2016 appointing the Council's members. Its purpose is to state the values the Council adheres to and to lay down the ethical principles and rules its people must observe and enforce, giving the CEP a basis for administrative and disciplinary measures against those who breach them.

It applies without distinction of rank to both electoral councillors, meaning the nine members of the board of directors, and electoral operators, a category defined to cover the executive director, technical directors and their deputies and the staff; the members of voting bureaux, communal and departmental electoral bureaux and the supervisors; electoral judges, clerks and bailiffs; and the councillors' own teams. All are required to act within their mandate or contract, to observe strict ethical standards, and to discharge their mission with dignity, impartiality and independence, objectively and non-partisanly. Published alongside it, the dispute regulations govern how electoral challenges are lodged and heard. Together these are the standing rules on conduct and on adjudication.