basic local government unitmeans 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 rollmeans 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 declarationmeans a declaration by the person concerned, inaccuracy in which makes that person liable to penalties, in accordance with the applicable national law.
home Member Statemeans the Member State of which a Union citizen is a national;
Member State of residencemeans the Member State in which a Union citizen resides but of which the Union citizen is not a national;
municipal electionsmeans 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 datemeans 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;