Chapter II, Article 11 · Council Directive (EU) 2026/1194

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Article 11Decision on registration and legal remedies#

1.The competent authorities of the Member State of residence shall inform the person concerned in a timely manner and in clear and plain language of the decision taken on that person’s application for entry on the electoral roll or of the decision concerning the admissibility of that person’s application to stand as a candidate. The notification of an application to stand as candidate may also be issued to an authorised representative.

2.Should a non-national Union citizen not be entered on the electoral roll or an application of such a citizen for entry on the electoral roll be rejected or an application of such a citizen to stand as a candidate be rejected, the person concerned shall be entitled to legal remedies on similar terms as the laws of the Member State of residence prescribe for voters and persons entitled to stand as candidates who are its nationals.

3.In the event that there are errors in the electoral roll or in the list of candidates for municipal elections, the persons concerned shall be entitled to legal remedies on similar terms as the laws of the Member State of residence prescribe for voters and persons entitled to stand as candidates who are its nationals.

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basic local government unit
means an administrative entity as listed in Annex I which, in accordance with the laws of the relevant Member State, contains one or more bodies elected by direct universal suffrage and is empowered to administer, at the basic level of political and administrative organisation, certain local affairs under its own responsibility;
electoral roll
means the official register of all voters entitled to vote in a given basic local government unit or in one of its subdivisions, drawn up and kept up to date by the competent authority under the electoral law of the Member State of residence, or the population register if it indicates eligibility to vote;
formal declaration
means a declaration by the person concerned, inaccuracy in which makes that person liable to penalties, in accordance with the applicable national law.
home Member State
means the Member State of which a Union citizen is a national;
Member State of residence
means the Member State in which a Union citizen resides but of which the Union citizen is not a national;
municipal elections
means elections by direct universal suffrage to appoint the members of the representative council and, where appropriate, under the laws of the relevant Member State, the head and members of the executive of a basic local government unit;
reference date
means the day or the days on which Union citizens have to satisfy, under the law of the Member State of residence, the requirements for voting or for standing as a candidate in that Member State;