§ § 12¹Principles of funding of political party and disclosure of information

(1) A political party must, in accordance with the principle of democracy, ensure the lawfulness and complete transparency of its revenue and expenditure at least in the manner prescribed in this chapter.
(2) A political party may receive income only from the following sources:
1) membership fees established on the basis of the articles of association of the political party;
2) allocations from the state budget under this Act;
3) donations made on the terms and conditions laid down in this Act;
4) transactions with the property of the political party.
(3) A political party is prohibited to use public funds for conducting or organising the election campaign of the political party or a person running in the list of the political party, except for the allocations from the state budget based on this Act. An election coalition, single candidate, person running in the list of a political party and person running in the list of an election coalition is prohibited to use public funds for conducting or organising their election campaign. The provisions of § 124 of this Act apply to such prohibited income. For the purposes of this section, ‘public funds’ means state budget funds and local authority budget funds.
(4) As of the end of the quarter, a political party will draw up a quarterly report on the revenues earned and loans obtained following the list of sources specified in subsection 2 of this section and submit it to the political party funding supervision committee in the required form by the tenth day of the month following the quarter. The report will set out the date specified in subsections 5 and 6 of this section. The report will be published on the website of the political party funding supervision committee. Upon publication of the report on the website of the political party funding supervision committee, the personal identification code specified in subsections 6 and 7 of this section will be replaced by the person’s date of birth.
(5) The political party will also disclose the donation that has been returned to the person or transferred to the state budget under subsections 1–3 of § 124 of this Act.
(6) With regard to the membership fee a political party will indicate that it is the membership fee and indicate the name and personal identification of the person who paid it and the amount and date of accrual of the membership fee.
(7) With regard to a donation a political party will indicate that it is a donation and indicate the name and personal identification code of the donator and the value and the date of accrual of the donation.
(8) A political party will draw up a quarterly report on their expenses as of the end of the quarter and submit it to the political party funding supervision committee in the required form by the 10th date of the month following the quarter. The report will set out the expenses divided into the following categories:
1) expenses of political activities;
2) labour expenses;
3) administrative expenses.
(9) The expenses of political activities specified in clause 1 of subsection 8 of this section will categorised in the report as follows:
1) advertising expenses by type (television, radio, online, outdoor and newspaper advertising, printed adverting materials);
2) public relations expenses;
3) publication expenses;
4) expenses of public events;
5) Other expenses of political activities.
(10) The administrative expenses specified in clause 3 of subsection 8 of this section include, for the purposes of this Act, office rental and public utility expenses, transportation, heating, telecommunications, fixed asset depreciation, insurance, minor supplies and other similar expenses.
(11) The types of the expenses specified in subsections 8 and 9 of this section and the total quarterly expenses by the expense types will be indicated in the report.
(12) A political party will submit to the political party funding supervision committee an accounting printout of its payable bills and the balance sheet as of the end of the quarter by the tenth day of the month following the quarter.
(13) If a political party detects a deficiency in a submitted report, the political party will immediately submit to the political party funding supervision committee a report on the change. If the new report is submitted before the committee has detected the deficiency, the obligation provided for in subsection 2 of § 124 to transfer to the state budget the sum corresponding to the deficiency detected in the report will not be applied. If, in the event specified in subsection 1 of this section, the deficiency in the submission of the data specified in the first sentence of this subsection has been caused by a member of the political party or an affiliated organisation, the obligation to transfer to the state budget the amount corresponding to the deficiency detected in the report, which has been provided for in subsection 2 of § 124, will be applied to the member of the political party or to the affiliated organisation, taking into account the provisions of the first sentence of this subsection.
(14) A political party maintains a website for publication of information and communicate the address of the website to the registration department.
[RT I, 21.06.2014, 8 – entry into force 01.01.2015]