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Quotes based on international documents, law, and treaties- "Measures taken by states governing donations to political parties should provide specific rules to... ensure transparency of donations and avoid secret donations."
- "States should: i. provide that donations to political parties are made public, in particular, donations exceeding a fixed ceiling."
- "The transparency of private financing of each party should be guaranteed. In achieving this aim, each party should make public each year the annual accounts of the previous year, which should incorporate a list of all donations other than membership fees. All donations exceeding an amount fixed by the legislator must be recorded and made public."
- "Measures taken by states governing donations to political parties should provide specific rules to...avoid prejudice to the activities of political parties."
- "Measures taken by states governing donations to political parties should provide specific rules to... ensure the independence of political parties."
- "Laws governing the internal resources of parties should avoid interfering unnecessarily with the independence of political parties."
- "Public law should be tailored such that it does not endanger the autonomy of political parties and that it ensures their independence."
- "As a rule, public laws should be, and in practice have been, framed fairly liberally, prohibiting or restricting only those forms of fundraising which have no real connection with a party’s raison d’être."
- "States should take measures aimed at limiting, prohibiting or otherwise strictly regulating donations from legal entities which provide goods or services for any public administration."
- "States should prohibit legal entities under the control of the state or of other public authorities from making donations to political parties."
- "In general, states should take measures aimed at limiting, prohibiting or otherwise strictly regulating donations from: corporate entities/business enterprises, legal entities which provide goods or services for any branch of the public administration."
- "Other limitations may also be envisaged. Such may consist notably of a prohibition of contributions from enterprises of an industrial or commercial nature or religious organisations."
- "Any foreign donations, inclusive of those from foreign physical and legal entities, for candidates, political parties (coalitions), participating in elections, or to other public unions and organizations, which directly or indirectly, or in another manner relate to or are under a direct influence of control of the candidate, political party (coalition), and facilitate or contribute to accomplishment of goals of the political party (coalition) are not allowed."
- "States should specifically limit, prohibit or otherwise regulate donations from foreign donors."
- "Reasonable restrictions on campaign funding can include limits on funding from foreign or anonymous sources."
- "In general, states should take measures aimed at limiting, prohibiting or otherwise strictly regulating donations from: corporate entities/business enterprises; individuals, public or private legal entities of foreign nationality."
- "The legal framework of party financing should specifically limit, prohibit or otherwise regulate contributions from foreign donors."
- "Political parties may receive private financial donations. Donations from foreign States or enterprises must however be prohibited. This prohibition should not prevent financial donations from nationals living abroad."
- "Rules concerning donations to political parties, with the exception of those concerning tax deductibility referred to in Article 4, should also apply, as appropriate, to all entities which are related, directly or indirectly, to a political party or are otherwise under the control of a political party."
- "Rules concerning donations to political parties should also apply to all levels of the party organisation and to all entities which are related, directly or indirectly, to a political party or are otherwise under its control."
- "This Convention signatory states shall provide for an open and transparent nature of all money donations to candidates, political parties (coalitions), participating in elections, in order to avoid any prohibited donations to candidates, political parties (coalitions) that have put forward the candidates (lists of candidates) in elections."
- "The legal framework may provide for electoral campaign financing on the basis of the following internationally-recognized standards: That there should be a transparent system of disclosure of the funding received by any party or candidate."
- "Campaign financing should be transparent, and there should be clear legislation or rules governing campaign financing."
- "Where applicable, funding of political parties must be transparent and based on agreed threshold in accordance with the laws of the land."
- "The financing of political parties through public funds should be on condition that the accounts of political parties shall be subject to control by specific public organs (for example by a Court of Audit). States shall promote a policy of financial transparency of political parties that benefit from public financing."
- "States should require particular records to be kept of all expenditure, direct and indirect, on electoral campaigns in respect of each political party, each list of candidates and each candidate."
- "It is common practice for candidates and political parties to be obliged to disclose funding sources and provide reports and accounts of their campaign expenditure."
- "Financing of political parties must be fully transparent, which requires political parties, in particular: ii. to declare the identity of donors who give financial support exceeding a certain limit."
- "Companion legislation that would further promote the right of access to information and provide a supportive legislative framework should be enacted, including: laws compelling disclosure of political party and campaign financing."
- "Political parties, candidates and politicians should disclose assets, income and expenditure to an independent agency."
- "Public legislation on disclosure should adopt the following guidelines: Party reports should be disclosed to an official auditing body and to members of the public."
- "To this effect, party financing legislation should include stipulations regulating at least four distinct aspects relating to the transparency of political finance: Disclosure: rules which oblige political parties to open up their financial accounts and reveal information on their levels of income, including the identity of donors, and expenditure."
- "Rules which require a party to maintain and make available for public scrutiny records identifying donations exceeding a certain value and their donors, may be said to embody the principle of transparency."
- "There must be accountability in the use of public funds."
- "States should require political parties to present the accounts referred to in Article 11 [consolidated accounts that include those of directly or indirectly related entities] regularly, and at least annually, to the independent authority referred to in Article 14 [independent monitoring which includes supervision over the accounts of political parties and campaign expenses]."
- "States should require political parties regularly, and at least annually, to make public the accounts referred to in Article 11 [consolidated accounts that include those of directly or indirectly related entities] or as a minimum a summary of those accounts, including the information required in Article 10 [records of all direct and indirect expenditures for every candidate, list of candidates and party], as appropriate, and in Article 12 [information regarding all donations received by the party, including the nature and value, with donors of donations over a certain value identified]."
- "States should require political parties and candidates to make their full accounts publicly available at regular intervals. At the very least, parties and candidates should present a summary of their accounts, including records of donations and expenditure."
- "Voters should therefore be entitled to know who the financial supporters are of the different political parties and candidates they vote for."
- "The transparency of electoral expenses should be achieved through the publication of campaign accounts."
- "Reporting on election activities should more or less follow the electoral cycle. Ideally, reports should be available in time to allow a candidate’s opponent, the authorities or the public to investigate and publicise any questionable transactions before the elections."
- "In reporting and disclosure regulations, there is a need to strike a balance between the wish by outsiders to know (transparency) and the wish by donors and recipients to maintain their private sphere (privacy)."
- "Items identified by reporting rules should strike an adequate balance between the party's right to privacy as a voluntary association and the public's right to know the important financial details of the struggle for power. The disclosure provisions' details on the sources and amounts of large donations must take into account the potential to identify interested money and the desirability of confidentiality in grass-roots support to parties and candidates."
- "Carried to an extreme, the voting public's right to know who supports candidates and parties would mean that even the smallest amount would have to be disclosed, giving the name, address and occupation of the donor. There are, however, expenses involved in providing transparency: first, administrative expenses, connected with professional bookkeeping at all levels of political activity; and second, the expenses of political actors and public agencies in preparing and processing unnecessarily detailed information. Thus a realistic concept of transparency has to be a search for the optimum balance."
- "Public legislation on disclosure should adopt the following guidelines: Disclosure provisions should distinguish between income and expenditure."
- "Public legislation on disclosure should adopt the following guidelines: Donations exceeding a certain minimum threshold should be disclosed."
- "Public legislation on disclosure should adopt the following guidelines: Donations should be itemized into standardized categories."
- "Legislation should be adopted which itemizes private donations."
- "The sources of income and the categories of expenditure should be standardised and specified by the law."
- "Public legislation on disclosure should adopt the following guidelines: Disclosure provisions should distinguish between the financing of political parties and the financing of candidates."
- "Public legislation on disclosure should adopt the following guidelines: Disclosure provisions should distinguish between routine party finances and electoral finances."