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The Law On The Financing Of The Election Of The Candidate

Original Language Title: Laki ehdokkaan vaalirahoituksesta

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On election funding for the candidate

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In accordance with the decision of the Parliament:

ARTICLE 1
Scope and purpose of the law

This law provides for the candidate's election funding and its reporting in parliamentary elections, presidential elections, municipal elections and the European Parliament elections.

The aim of the law is to increase the transparency of election funding and information on potential interests of candidates and to limit the cost of candidates' election campaigns.

ARTICLE 2
Election funding of the candidate

Election funding For the purposes of this law, the funding to cover the costs incurred by the candidate for the election campaign not earlier than six months before the election date and no later than two weeks after the election day, irrespective of when they are paid.

Election funding of the candidate may consist of:

1) a candidate's own resources and the admission of a candidate;

(2) support from the candidate, the candidate's support group or any other entity acting solely in support of the candidate;

3) other aid.

ARTICLE 3
Calculation of aid

In support of election financing, the amount of money, goods, services or any other equivalent receivable shall be included. However, the aid shall not be regarded as normal winter work or normal free services.

Gross financial information is expressed in gross amounts.

Aid not provided in cash is assessed and reported in cash.

A number of the contributions received by the candidate, the candidate's support group and the other Community support group solely to support the candidate, are summed up and reported as one. (16.7.2010/684)

§ 4 (16.7.2010/684)
Restrictions on election funding for the candidate

The candidate, the support group of the candidate and the rest of the Community, acting solely in support of the candidate, shall not receive any aid which cannot be determined. However, this does not apply to support from normal collection activities.

The candidate, the candidate's support group and the other community supporting the candidate alone shall not receive, directly or indirectly, the same aid from the same aid as EUR 3 000 in municipal elections, eur 6 000 in parliamentary elections and 10 000 respectively. In the European Parliament elections. Aid in party law (18/1969) May, however, be greater than the party or party association referred to above, unless it contains the amount of aid to be provided by any other donor.

The candidate, the candidate's support group and the rest of the Community, in order to support the candidate, may receive foreign support for the election campaign only from individuals, as well as from the international community and foundations of the candidate's direction.

The candidate, the support group of the candidate and the other Community to support the candidate shall not receive support for the election campaign from the State, the municipality, the municipality of Municipality, the State or the Municipality, the Association of Public Law, Or the Foundation and not the accounting law (1336/1997) in Chapter 1, Article 5 Of a company controlled by a State or a municipality. However, this does not apply to conventional hospitality.

The candidate, the candidate's support group and the rest of the Community acting solely in support of the candidate, shall ensure that the name of the payer's payer shall be reflected in the remuneration referred to in the election campaign or intended to support it. However, the name of a private person shall not be disclosed without his express consent, provided that the value of the advertisement he has paid is lower than eur 800 in the municipal elections or in parliamentary elections, the European Parliament or the presidential elections Less than eur 1 500.

§ 5
Notification obligation

The obligation to notify the election funding shall be as follows:

(1) elected as a representative of the national parliament and as a deputy representative for the performance of the election;

(2) in the presidential election, the party nominated by the candidate and the election representative of the nominee, or his deputy, appointed by the candidate;

(3) elected or deputized in municipal elections;

4) in the election of the European Parliament as a Member of the European Parliament and the result of the election as an alternate member.

ARTICLE 6 (16.7.2010/684)
Information to be reported

The notification shall include:

1) an indication of which elections are in question;

(2) the name, rank, occupation or function of the candidate, the name of the party who set him up, or an indication that the candidate has been a candidate for the electoral association, as well as the election district of the candidate and the municipality in which the candidate was nominated;

(3) the total cost of the election campaign and the breakdown of electoral advertising in newspapers, distribution and periodicals, radio, television, information networks and other communication media, foreign advertising, electoral documents, brochures and other printed material The provision of services, advertising planning and the organisation of elections, as well as other costs;

(4) total election funding, broken down by a candidate's own funds, including the loans taken by the candidate, as well as the outstanding invoices, as well as all the candidates, the candidate's support group or any other candidate alone; To receive support from the Community as a group in support of support from individuals, companies, parties, party associations and others;

(5) other information deemed necessary for the notification of the election campaign and the costs of the election campaign.

Each individual aid and its lender shall be reported if the value of the aid is at least eur 800 in the municipal elections, or at least eur 1 500 in parliamentary elections, the European Parliament elections or the presidential election. If this aid is given by buying an identifiable item of goods or services or in a similar consideration, only its net value shall be counted separately. If the individual aid is to be notified individually, the recipient of the aid shall also be informed by the beneficiary of the notified aid.

If the candidate, the candidate's support group or any other entity supporting the candidate alone has taken out a loan to cover the expenses of the election campaign, the notification shall include a plan for repayment of the loan.

The name of a private person shall not be disclosed without his express consent, provided that the value of the aid he gives is less than the amount specified in paragraph 2.

A candidate whose election funding in municipal elections is less than eur 800 shall not be obliged to provide the information referred to in paragraph 1 (3) and (4). However, he shall provide a written declaration that his election funding has not exceeded the limit laid down in this paragraph.

§ 7
Responsibility for notification

The notifier shall be responsible for the content of the notification.

§ 8
Notification of notification

The notification shall be made to the National Audit Office within two months of the confirmation of the results of the elections.

The notification may be made by means of a form established by the State Audit Office.

Upon request, the notifier shall provide, on request, additional information and clarifications which may be necessary in order to verify the accuracy and adequacy of the notification, in a campaign statement or in an equivalent manner.

§ 9
Information tasks of the Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice delivers to the National Audit Office free of charge (714/1998) Article 43 , as well as in parliamentary elections, municipal and European elections without delay after the election result, and without delay in the presidential election following the end of the nomination of candidates, Reporting obligations.

ARTICLE 10
Control tasks of the State Audit Office

Compliance with the reporting obligation is monitored by the State Audit Office. To this end, it:

(1) verify whether all reporting obligations have made the notification provided for in this Act;

(2) publish without delay all incoming notifications; and

(3) considering, where appropriate, the notification requirement to submit a new notification, to supplement the notification already made or to clarify the correctness and adequacy of the notification.

If, in spite of the request of the National Audit Office, the reporting obligation does not make the notification provided for in this law, or where the notification is found to be manifestly incorrect or incomplete, the State Audit Office May be obliged to make a declaration or to correct a defect or defect, under threat of a compulsory fine. The penalty payment is denounced by the Law on the National Audit Office (676/2000) Referred to in Article 3 (1) of the Regulation. The lodging of a periodic penalty payment and the payment of a penalty shall be subject to appeal against the Supreme Administrative Court, as in the case of administrative law (18/06/1996) Provides.

The National Audit Office shall report to the Parliament on the notifications received and on its activities in monitoring compliance with the reporting obligation within eight months of the confirmation of the outcome of the elections.

ARTICLE 11
Prior notification

However, in the presidential election and in the presidential election, the candidate for election and the nominee of the nominee shall be able to submit before the election date, but not earlier than the election date and the presidential election, After drawing up the list of candidates, a prior notification to the Office of the National Audit Office, including a plan for the election campaign and the costs of the election campaign.

The State Audit Office shall publish the advance notifications without delay.

Article 11a (16.7.2010/684)
Ex post notification

Where a candidate, a candidate's support group, or any other entity supporting a candidate solely in support of the candidate, has taken out a loan to cover the expenses of the election campaign in parliamentary elections or in the general election of the European Parliament, Information on the amount of the loan and of at least eur 1 500 of the loan received for the loan ( Ex post notification ). The notification shall be made during the period of the loan during the calendar year of the legislative term to which the reporting obligation relates.

ARTICLE 12 (16.7.2010/684)
Notification register and publicity of its information

The State Audit Office shall maintain the register of the electoral financial reporting, which shall include the information contained in the notification, prior notification and ex-post notification. Where the candidate has provided the declaration referred to in Article 6 (5), the register shall contain the information referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 5 of Article 1 (1) and the declaration of insurance. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Law on Public Access Article 16 (2) of the ec Treaty (3) provides that each person has the right to obtain copies of the register, as well as information through a public information network.

Information on municipal elections and municipal elections is kept available in the general information network for five years, information on the election of the European Parliament for six years and presidential elections for seven years after the elections Confirmation. The advance declarations made by the reporting obligations other than those referred to in Article 5 shall be kept available in the public information network for 30 days following the confirmation of the results of the elections.

The storage of information, prior notification and post-notification and the information entered in the notification register, as well as the receipt thereof, shall otherwise be subject to the provisions of (181/1994) And the law on public authorities' activities.

ARTICLE 13
Entry into force

This Act shall enter into force on 1 May 2009.

This Act repeals the Act of 12 May 2000 on the notification of election financing by the candidate (414/2000) With its subsequent modifications.

In the 2009 European Parliament elections, Article 3 (1) and Article 3 (1) and (2) of the repealed Law, as referred to in Law 604/2008, shall apply instead of Articles 2 (1), 4 and 6 of this Act. The provisions of Article 8 (3) of this Act shall only apply in the first post-parliamentary elections of 2009.

Before the entry into force of this Act, measures may be taken to implement the law.

THEY 13/2009 , PVM 2/2009, EV 30/2009

Entry into force and application of amending acts:

16.7.2010/6841:

This Act shall enter into force on 1 September 2010.

THEY 6/2010 , No 100/2010, EV 100/2010