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Paragraph 53
 

Finally, it will be necessary to explicitly regulate which body is competent to impose penalties. It seems that currently the CEC is competent, even though the legal framework fails to regulate this clearly and comprehensively: the LFPE is completely silent on the matter; under Article 42 of the LGE, the CEC may impose fines on political entities which do not submit campaign finance reports within the legal deadlines; Article 126, paragraph 1 of the LGE contains a general clause stating that “the CEC or the Court of First Instance may punish violations of the provisions of this law, when they do not constitute a criminal offence and have not been addressed by the ECAP, by a fine between €200 and €2,000”;the above-mentioned CEC Regulation No. 14/2015 on the Financing of Political Entities and Sanctions states that the CEC can impose fines for violation of provisions of the LFPE and the LGE (see Article 1, paragraph 1.4).