Recital (17)

The information exchange between Member States to prevent multiple voting or instances where the same person would stand as a candidate more than once at the same election should not prevent their nationals from voting or standing as candidates in other types of election. To facilitate communication between national authorities, Member States should be required to designate one contact point for that information exchange. A framework was developed in the past by the Commission to be used only by the Member States under their responsibility to exchange the necessary data. That framework should be incorporated in this Directive, to further support exchanges between Member States’ competent authorities. Member States will act as separate controllers for their processing of personal data in this regard. That framework should give access to Member States only to the data of the Union citizens residing in their electoral territory who explicitly expressed their wish to be entered on their electoral rolls or stand as candidates and their own nationals who expressed explicitly the wish to vote or stand as candidates in the Member States of residence.