Laws » Party Law in Modern Europe

	Law.type	Law.country_id	Law.year	Article.number	Categories
	Constitution	Germany	1949	Article 21	Activity and behaviour,...
(1) The political parties participate in the formation of the political will of the people. They may be freely established. Their internal organization must conform to democratic principles. They... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 1	Democratic principles,...
(1) The parties are a constitutionally and legally necessary and integral part of the free democratic order in the state. With their free and constant assistance in the formation of the political... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 2	Democratic principles,...
(1) Parties are associations of citizens which influence, either permanently or for a long period of time, the formation of political will at Federal or Local level and participate in the... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 3	Extra-parliamentary party
A political party may institute legal proceedings in its own name and lawsuits may be brought against it. The same applies to its local organizations at their highest level unless the party... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 4	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The name of a party must be clearly distinguishable from that of any other existing party; this is also applicable to acronyms. In election campaigns and election procedure, only the... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 6	External oversight, Extra-parliamentary party
(1) A party must have written statutes and a written programme. Local organizations conduct their activities pursuant to their own statutes provided that the statutes of their immediately superior... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 7	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) Parties are subdivided into local organizations. The size and territorial scope of such units shall be determined in the statutes. The territorial organization of the party shall be structured... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 8	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The meeting of members and executive body constitute the essential organs of the party and its local organizations. The Statutes may provide that in supra-local organizations the meeting of... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 9	External oversight, Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The meetings of members and representatives (assembly, general meeting) constitute the supreme organ in a given local organization. In high-level local organizations, these are designated as... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 10	Electoral party, External...
(1) Pursuant to the detailed provisions of the Statutes, the competent bodies of the party shall freely decide on the admission of new members. It shall not be necessary to give any justification... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 11	Extra-parliamentary party, Secondary legislation
(1) The executive body shall be elected at least once in every second calendar year. It shall comprise at least three members.(2) Pursuant to the statutes, the executive body may include members... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 12	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) Members of general party committees and similar bodies which pursuant to the statutes have wide powers to deliberate or decide on matters of party policy and organization may also be elected... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 13	Extra-parliamentary party
The composition of a meeting of representatives or that of any other body wholly or partly comprising representatives from local organizations shall be determined in the Statutes. The number of... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 14	External oversight, Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The party and the highest-level local organizations set up courts of arbitration to settle and decide on disputes between the party or a local organization and individual members as well as... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 15	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The party organs shall adopt their resolutions by a simple majority vote inasmuch as a higher majority vote is not stipulated by law or by the Statutes.(2) The ballots for members of the... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 16	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The dissolution and exclusion of subordinate local organizations as well as the termination of whole bodies of local organization shall be permissible only in cases of serious infringement of... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 17	Electoral party,...
Candidates for election to parliament shall be chosen by a secret ballot. The nomination procedure shall be governed by the election laws and the party Statutes. [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 23	External oversight,...
(1) The executive body of the party shall make a public statement of the origin of funds received by the party within a calendar year (accounting year).(2) The statement of accounts shall be... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 24	Extra-parliamentary party, Party finance
(1) The statement of accounts shall comprise accounts of income and expenditure. The statement of accounts in its entirety shall incorporate the individual statements of accounts of the separate... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 29	External oversight, Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The audit referred to in Article 23, para 2, sentence 1 shall apply to the party and at least two of its provincial organization and four subordinate local organizations as selected by the... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 38	External oversight,...
The Chair of the Permanent Electoral Commission for Parliamentary Elections may require the executive body of the party to carry out the actions under Article 6, para. 3. The provisions of the... [more]
	Constitution	Germany	1983	Article 21	Activity and behaviour,...
(1) Political parties shall participate in the formation of the political will of the people. They may be freely established. Their internal organization must conform to democratic principles.... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 1	Democratic principles,...
(1) Political parties are a component of the free democratic basic order required under the Constitution. Due to their free and continuous participation in the formation of the political will of... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 2	Activity and behaviour,...
(1) Parties are associations of citizens which exert influence permanently or for longer periods of time on the formation of the political will at federal or Land level and participate in the... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 3	Extra-parliamentary party
A political party may institute legal proceedings in its own name and lawsuits may be brought against it. The same shall apply to its top regional branches, unless specified otherwise in the party... [more]

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