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Article 171
 

Single Public Register


(1) A single public register of the parties, coalitions and nomination committees registered for participation in the respective type of elections shall be created at the Bulgarian National Audit Office and it shall be maintained from the launching of an election campaign until the next elections of the same type.
(2) The following shall be published in the register referred to in Para. 1: 1. the circumstances referred to in Art. 17 of the Political Parties Act;
2. the name of the coalition and the name of the nomination committee and the names of the persons, who represent them;
3. the name of the party that has been designated by the coalition as responsible for the revenues, expenditures and its accountability;
4. the names of the person or persons, who is/are responsible for the revenues, expenditures and its accountability;
5. the names of the donors, the type, purpose, amount or value of the donations made;
6. the names of the candidates and the members of the nomination committees that have provided funds and the amount of the funds;
7. (repealed - SG 60/19, in force from 30.07.2019)
8. (amend. - SG 60/19, in force from 30.07.2019) the declarations on the origin of the donated funds, the declarations on the origin of the funds of the candidates and of the members of the nomination committees;
9. the names of the sociological agencies and of the advertising agencies, as well as of the public relations agencies with which the political parties, coalitions and nomination committees work.
(3) Within five days after the launching of the election campaign the parties, coalitions and nomination committees shall submit to the Bulgarian National Audit Office the information referred to in Para. 2, in hard copy and electronically, for entering it in the register.
(4) In the course of the election campaign the parties, coalitions and nomination committees shall submit to the Bulgarian National Audit Office, within a period of 7 days, the newly received information referred to in Para. 2, in hard copy or electronically, for entering it in the register.
(5) After the completion of the elections, the reports referred to in Art. 172 Para. 1 shall be published in the register.
(6) The Bulgarian National Audit Office shall determine the conditions and the procedure for entering the information referred to in Para. 2 into the register, as well as for remedying inaccuracies and omissions and shall announce them on its website.