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Administrative offence proceedings for the offences referred
to in Section 16 of this Law shall be conducted by the Corruption
Prevention and Combating Bureau.
[11 June 2020 / Section shall come into force on 1
July 2020. See Paragraph 33 of Transitional
Provisions]
1. Not later than by 1 September 1995, all the political
organisations (parties) registered in Latvia shall submit to the
Ministry of Justice and the State Revenue Service a declaration
of financial activities of the relevant political organisation
(party) which shall indicate the amount of funds at the disposal
of the relevant political organisation (party) on the date of
coming into force of this Law. Such declaration shall disclose
the sources from which the abovementioned funds have been
received.
2. The State Revenue Service shall perform the functions
specified for the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau
until the date when these functions are transferred to the
Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau in accordance with the
procedures and terms laid down in the Corruption Prevention and
Combating Bureau Law.
[6 June 2002]
3. In this Law, the terms "merchant", "commercial company",
and "capital company" shall also mean an undertaking and
company.
[6 June 2002]
4. The Cabinet shall issue the regulations provided for in
Section 4, Paragraph three and in Sections 8.¹ and
8.² of this Law by 1 August 2002.
[6 June 2002]
5. Political organisations (parties) shall commence the
fulfilment of the provisions of Section 4, Paragraph three of
this Law on 15 August 2002.
[6 June 2002]
6. Not later than by 1 September 2002 and in conformity with
the provisions of Section 4, Paragraph three of this Law, the
political organisations (parties) shall publish on the Internet
the information on all gifts (donations) received over the period
between 1 January 2002 and 15 August 2002.
[6 June 2002]
7. Section 8.⁴, Paragraph three of this Law shall
come into force on 1 January 2005.
[12 February 2004]
8. Section 8.⁵ of this Law shall come into force
concurrently with the corresponding amendments to the law On
Accounting.
[12 February 2004]
9. The political organisations (parties) which have submitted
lists of candidates for the elections to the European Parliament
provided for on 12 June 2004 shall indicate all the expenditures
that they have incurred over the period from the 90th
day to the 50th day before the elections within the
declaration of expenditures during the pre-election period
specified in Section 8.¹ of this Law. The political
organisations (parties) which have submitted lists of candidates
for the elections to the European Parliament provided for on 12
June 2004 shall determine all the expenditures incurred over the
period from the 90th day before elections to the day
of the elections within the declaration of revenues and
expenditures of elections determined by Section 8.² of
this Law as well as the expenditures that will be incurred when
paying invoices for the activities referred to in Section
8.¹, Paragraph two of this Law after the
elections.
[12 February 2004]
10. The political organisation (party) which has submitted
lists of candidates for the elections to the Saeima
provided for on 7 October 2006 and has violated the requirements
referred to in Section 8.⁴ of this Law shall, in
accordance with Section 10, Paragraph 2.¹ of this Law,
include the financial resources into the State budget
corresponding to the exceeded amount of pre-election expenditures
in the following amount:
1) if the political organisation (party) has not exceeded the
permissible amount of pre-election expenditures until the day
when Section 10, Paragraph 2.¹ of this Law comes into
force, it shall include in the State budget such financial
resources which conform to the total amount of pre-election
expenditures exceeded;
2) if the political organisation (party) has already exceeded
the permissible amount of pre-election expenditures until the day
when Section 10, Paragraph 2.¹ of this Law comes into
force, it shall transfer into the State budget such financial
resources which corresponds to such amount of exceeded
permissible pre-election expenditures which have arisen after
coming into force of Section 10, Paragraph 2.¹ of this
Law.
[18 May 2006]
11. Instead of the coefficient referred to in Section
8.⁴, Paragraph three of this Law, a coefficient of
0.00015 shall be applied for the elections of the European
Parliament planned in 2009.
[17 July 2008]
12. The political organisation (party) which have submitted
the lists of candidates for both the elections of the European
Parliament planned in 2009 and the elections of local government
council planned in 2009 shall submit to the Corruption Prevention
and Combating Bureau one joint declaration of revenues and
expenditures of elections in accordance with the requirements of
laws and regulations.
[17 July 2008]
13. If the political organisation (party) has submitted the
lists of candidates for both the elections of the European
Parliament planned in 2009 and the elections of local government
council planned in 2009, restrictions for the amount of
pre-election expenditures shall be applied not separately for the
elections to the European Parliament and the elections of local
government council but for such elections in the whole. The sum
which does not exceed the sum of amounts referred to in Section
8.⁴, Paragraphs two and three of this Law (Paragraph
11 of Transitional Provisions) can be used in total for the
elections of the European Parliament and local government
council.
[17 July 2008]
14. The liability for the violations referred to in Paragraph
13 of these Transitional Provisions shall come into force in
accordance with the procedures referred to in Section 10,
Paragraph 2.¹ of this Law.
[17 July 2008]
15. Until 31 December 2008, the Cabinet shall issue the
regulations referred to in Section 4, Paragraph three, Section
8.³, and Section 9, Paragraph three of this Law. Until
the day of coming into force of the relevant Cabinet regulations,
but not longer than until 31 December 2008, the Cabinet
Regulation No. 196 of 22 March 2005, Regulation Regarding Annual
Declarations of Financial Activities of Political Organisations
(Parties), Declarations of Expenditures During the Pre-election
Period, Statements on the Planned Election Expenditures,
Declarations of Revenues and Expenditures of Elections and
Reports on Gifts (Donations), shall be applied in so far as it is
not in contradiction with this Law.
[17 July 2008]
16. Non-conformity with the procedures for the filling in and
submission of an annual declaration of financial activities, the
declaration of expenditures during the pre-election period or the
declaration of revenues and expenditures of elections, provision
of false information in the declaration, non-compliance with the
procedures for the submission of the statement on the planned
election expenditures or non-compliance with the regulations for
publishing the report on the received or non-received gifts
(donations) as well as the exceeding of restrictions for the
amount of pre-election expenditures shall be evaluated and
examined pursuant to the requirements of this Law on the day of
commitment of the violation.
[17 July 2008]
17. Until 1 May 2009, the Cabinet shall develop the amendments
to this Law regarding partial financing of political
organisations (parties) from the State budget funds.
[17 July 2008]
18. Disbursement of the State budget financing determined in
Sections 7.¹, 7.², 7.³,
7.⁴, and 7.⁵ of this Law shall commence
from 2012 and shall be granted for the remaining term of office
of the elected Saeima, also including in this period the
last quarter of the calendar year in which the term of office of
the relevant Saeima expires. In order to receive State
budget financing, a political organisation (party) shall open the
account referred to in Section 7.², Paragraph one of
this Law and submit the submission referred to in Section
7.², Paragraph two of this Law to the Corruption
Prevention and Combating Bureau until 1 November 2011.
[10 June 2010]
19. Until 1 October 2010, the Cabinet shall issue the
regulations referred to in Section 4, Paragraph three of this Law
which govern the information to be indicated in the report of
political organisation (party) on gifts (donations) received and
the procedures for the submission thereof, and also the
procedures by which information on the gifts (donations) received
by political organisations (parties) shall be published and the
content of this information. Until the day of coming into force
of the relevant Cabinet regulations, but not longer than until 1
October 2010, Cabinet Regulation No. 129 of 10 February 2009,
Procedures for the Publication of Annual Statements of Political
Organisations (Parties), Declarations of Revenues and
Expenditures of Elections and Reports on Gifts (Donations), shall
be applicable, in so far as it is not in contradiction with this
Law.
[10 June 2010]
20. The Cabinet shall, by 31 March 2013, issue the regulations
referred to in Section 2, Paragraph five of this Law. Until the
day of coming into force of the relevant Cabinet regulations, but
not longer than until 31 March 2013, the Cabinet Regulation No.
1054 of 16 November 2010, Procedures by which a Person shall
Submit Information to the Corruption Prevention and Combating
Bureau on his or her Income, Money Savings and Properties, shall
be applied insofar as it is not in contradiction with this
Law.
[29 November 2012]
21. Amendment to Section 4, Paragraph four of this Law
regarding the replacement of the number "30" with the number "60"
shall not be applicable to such gifts (donations) which have been
made prior to the day of coming into force of this amendment. In
relation to such gifts (donations), the wording of Section 4,
Paragraph four of this Law which was in force on the day of
making of the relevant gift (donation) shall be applied.
[29 November 2012]
22. Amendments to Section 10, Paragraph 1.¹ of this
Law regarding deletion of the number and words "Section 2,
Paragraph three" and the words and number "and Section 6,
Paragraph one", as well as amendments to Section 10, Paragraph
two of this Law regarding supplementation thereof with the words
"and three" after the number and words "Section 2, Paragraph one"
and with the word "one" after the number and word "Section 6"
shall not be applicable to such decisions of the director of the
Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (regardless of the
entry into effect thereof) which have been taken prior to the day
of coming into force of these amendments. In such case, Section
10, Paragraphs 1.¹ and two shall be applicable in the
wording which was in force on the day when the relevant decision
was taken.
[29 November 2012]
23. Amendment to Section 2 of this Law regarding the new
wording of Paragraph three which provides that natural persons
are allowed to make gifts (donations), pay membership fees and
joining fees from their income but the total amount of these
gifts (donations), membership fees and joining fees may not
exceed 30 per cent of the income gained by such persons in the
previous calendar year shall come into force on 1 January
2018.
[26 October 2017]
24. Amendments to this Law regarding the new wording of
Section 3, Paragraph three, Section 4, Paragraphs three and four,
Section 8.², Paragraph one, and Section
8.⁵, Paragraph two [which provides that a political
organisation (party) shall report to the Corruption Prevention
and Combating Bureau on the joining fees, membership fees, and
the received and refunded (returned) gifts (donations), and shall
submit to the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau the
declaration of revenues and expenditures of elections and the
annual statement using the Electronic Data Input System] shall
come into force on 30 June 2019.
[26 October 2017]
25. Section 7.³, Paragraph four, Clause 3 of this
Law (in the wording of 1 December 2017) s