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The draft Code retains the possibility of donations by legal persons, with a donation limit of up to 12 average monthly salaries per year (Article 57(4)(2)(a)). While international standards do not prescribe whether donations from legal entities should be permitted, the possibility of donations by legal persons such as corporations, in practice, poses several challenges and allows wealthy financial interests behind different legal persons to channel considerable funds into election campaigns while maintaining the opacity of the sources of such donations. In this respect, the international good practice calls for limitation to such donations. The Venice Commission and ODIHR recommend introducing additional safeguards in the draft Code to prevent channelling donations from the same beneficial owners and possibly illicit funds into political campaigns.