Remit of the Central Electoral Commission in controlling electoral political campaign financing

1. The Central Electoral Commission shall:

1) approve the form of a donation receipt;

2) register donation receipts, issue them and control their usage;

3) set limits on electoral political campaign expenditure in specific constituencies and set limits on other amounts provided for in this Code, which are calculated on the basis of the amount of the AMEs applicable to an election, and announce these limits and amounts no later than by 1 January of each year;

4) approve the description of the procedure for marking political advertising;

5) approve the forms of the following documents: the accounting ledger, the declaration of a producer or disseminator of public information, the report on political advertising, and the description of the procedure for filling in and submitting the said documents;

6) after consultation with the Lithuanian Chamber of Auditors, approve the form of a report on financing;

7) approve the description of the procedure for filling in and submitting the report on financing;

8) after consultation with the Lithuanian Chamber of Auditors, approve the terms of reference for an audit firm or an auditor conducting an independent inspection of an independent participant, defining the scope of work to be carried out by the auditor;

9) provide software for the transfer of data from the accounting ledger and the declaration of the producer or disseminator of public information as well as the publication of the rates and conditions applied by the producer or disseminator of public information during the electoral political campaign, the reports on financing, and the declarations of the producer or disseminator of public information based on the transferred data;

10) in cooperation with the State Tax Inspectorate, create the conditions for the treasurer to verify in the information system of the Central Electoral Commission whether a donation meets the requirements under paragraphs 5 and 6 of Article 110 and whether the donor has declared the donation. The Central Electoral Commission shall be responsible for the proper functioning of this information system;

11) facilitate prompt publishing of the information on the rates applied by the producers or disseminators of public information during the electoral political campaign, the declarations of the producers or disseminators of public information, the accounting ledgers, the reports on financing, and the reports on political advertising on the website of the Central Electoral Commission as soon as they are received; update their data as soon as the data are received; and be responsible for compliance of the said data with the information received.

2. The Central Electoral Commission shall control the use of the funds allocated for the electoral political campaign and carry out an audit of the use of these funds.

3. An institution which has initiated or terminated a pre-trial investigation, a case, proceedings or an investigation into the activities of a political organisation shall report this to the Central Electoral Commission.