E. Rules on the financing of political parties

1. Donations

It is noted that currently, the draft Act does not limit, prohibit or otherwise regulate foreign funding of political parties (this issue is regulated elsewhere). It would, however, for the sake of completeness, be preferable if also the draft Act would include a provision on foreign funding, either directly or by reference to other legislation. Such provisionshould fully respect Article 11 of the ECHR, par 10.4 of the Copenhagen Document, and European Union law; unnecessary infringement of free association in the case of political parties active at the international level should be avoided.[1]

[1] See Venice Commission, Opinion on the prohibition of financial contributions to political parties from foreign sources, CDL-AD(2006)014; see also in this respect Venice Commission, Code of good practice in the field of political parties, CDL-AD(2009)021, para. 160.