Monitoring of election and party funding
The National Audit Office has monitored election funding since 1 May 2009 and party funding since 1 September 2010. From 2000 to April 2009 election funding disclosures were sent to municipalities' central election boards in local elections and to the Ministry of Justice in other elections.
The National Audit Office checks that all those who are required to do so have filed an election funding disclosure as prescribed in the Act on a Candidate's Election Funding. It publishes all disclosures without delay and if necessary can ask an individual to refile or supplement a disclosure or verify the correctness or completeness of information.
Once the election results have been confirmed, candidates who have been elected or designated as alternates must file disclosures. These must be sent to the National Audit Office within a period of two months.
Follow-up reports, which only apply to parliamentary elections and European Parliament elections, must be filed each calendar year during the electoral term that the disclosure obligation concerns. A candidate or support group having taken out a loan to cover campaign costs must file an annual follow-up report on the amount of the loan and any contribution of at least 1,500 euros made to repay the loan.