The document was elaborated with consideration of opinions and recommendations of the OSCE/ODIHR Election observation mission for people’s deputies of Ukraine elections on October 28, 2012 and other missions of official observers from foreign countries and international organizations.
The law took into consideration recommendations of the Venice Commission and OSCE/ODIHR, particularly regarding:
establishing criteria for creating single-mandate constituencies;
establishing requirements for the Central election commission to publicize on its official web-site the list of single-mandate constituencies including their numbers, borders, as well as addresses of respective district election commissions;
providing additional powers to district election commissions concerning organization of election process in districts;
establishing requirements regarding informing parties' representatives or candidates in single-mandate constituencies about errors or inaccuracies found in registration documents;
normalizing provisions regarding voting of persons, who on the day of elections are living or staying abroad, and of persons who temporarily changed their place of voting (without changing their voting address) outside of a constituency to which they are referred by their voting address;
introducing interim report on receipt and use of funds of election fund;
including provisions that improve the procedure of election process information coverage by mass media;
improving provisions as to reasons for invalidation of the vote;
extending rights given to official observers.
The respective bill was registered under No. 3396.