Laws » Party Law in Modern Europe

	Law.type	Law.country_id	Law.year	Article.number	Categories
	Party Law	Estonia	2010	Article 12(16)	External oversight, Secondary legislation
(1) The provisions of the General Part of the Penal Code (RT I 2001, 61, 364; 2002, 44, 284; 56, 350; 64, 390; 82, 480) and of the Code of Misdemeanour Procedure (RT I 2002, 50, 313) apply to the... [more]
	Party Law	Estonia	2010	Article 13	Extra-parliamentary party
(2) Until the elections of the VIII Riigikogu, political parties may be founded and registered if they have at least 200 members.(3) § 11 of this Act is implemented as of the date of... [more]
	Party Finance Law	Finland	1969	Article 1	Party finance
The party subsidy referred to in section 9 of the Act on Political Parties must be applied for by the 15th of February each year. In the application, the party must disclose the names of its... [more]
	Party Finance Law	Finland	1969	Article 2	External oversight, Party finance
Party subsidies are granted by the Council of State, which is responsible for appending to the granting decision any terms it deems necessary regarding the payment, use, remittance, and... [more]
	Party Finance Law	Finland	1969	Article 3	Party finance
The party subsidy is paid by the State Treasury. The party subsidy is paid to the party's postal cheque account. [more]
	Party Finance Law	Finland	1969	Article 4	External oversight
Use of the party subsidy is supervised by the Prime Minister's Office which may, in this function, request assistance from the State Treasury and the National Audit Office. [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 1	External oversight, Extra-parliamentary party
For the purposes of this act of law, a political party means an association entered in the party register maintained by the Ministry of Justice. [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 2	Activity and behaviour, Extra-parliamentary party
An association may upon written application be entered in the party register as a political party if1) its main objective is to influence state matters;2) it has signed support cards from at least... [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 3	External oversight, Extra-parliamentary party
The application for entering an association in the party register shall include1) an extract from the Register of Associations;2) a certified copy of the rules and regulations in force;3) the... [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 4	Extra-parliamentary party
When an association has been entered in the party register as a political party, the abbreviation ‘r.p.', for the term ‘rekisteröity puolue' or ‘registrerat parti'... [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 5	External oversight, Extra-parliamentary party
Amendments to the rules and regulations or the party programme of a political party shall be reported to the Ministry of Justice. An amendment of the rules and regulations does not enter into... [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 6	Extra-parliamentary party
A political party that fails to gain a parliamentary seat in two consecutive parliamentary elections is deleted from the party register. The same applies if a political party ceases to be a... [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 7	External oversight
A decision by the Ministry of Justice to enter a political party in the party register or to delete it from the register must be complied with notwithstanding an appeal, until the appeal process... [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 8	External oversight, Party finance
The provisions of the Accounting Act, as valid at the time, on corporations belonging in the third group with a legal obligation to keep books apply to political parties. Within one month from the... [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 9	External oversight, Party finance
Within the limits of the state budget, a political party represented in Parliament may be granted party subsidy from government funds for financing the party's public activities specified in its... [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 11	External oversight
If a party fails to fulfil an obligation laid down in this act, the subsidy referred to in Section 9 may be withheld until the obligation has been fulfilled. [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 12	External oversight
Further regulations on the implementation and application of this act shall be issued by government decree. [more]
	Party Law	Finland	1969	Article 13	External oversight, Party finance
This act enters into force on 1 February 1969.As this act enters into force, the following political parties are entered, ex officio, in the party register: Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue... [more]
	Constitution	Finland	1991	Article 23.a	Electoral party
The right to nominate a presidential candidate shall be possessed by any registered party from whose lists at least one representative has been elected in the preceding parliamentary election or... [more]
	Constitution	Finland	1999	Article 25	Electoral party
(3) The right to nominate candidates in parliamentary elections belongs to registered political parties and, as provided by an Act, to groups of persons who have the right to vote. [more]
	Constitution	Finland	1999	Article 54	Electoral party
(3) The right to nominate a candidate in the election for President is held by any registered political party from whose candidate list at least one Representative was elected to the Parliament in... [more]
	Party Finance Law	Finland	2010	Article 1	External oversight, Party finance
(1) This Act lays down provisions on candidate's election funding and its disclosure in parliamentary elections, a Presidential election, municipal elections and European Parliamentary... [more]
	Party Finance Law	Finland	2010	Article 2	Party finance
(1) For the purposes of this Act, election funding means the funding raised to cover the costs of the candidate's election campaign incurred over a period starting no earlier than six months... [more]
	Party Finance Law	Finland	2010	Article 3	Party finance
(1) Campaign contributions received in the form of money, goods, services or other performances are deemed to constitute election funding. However, ordinary voluntary work and free services are... [more]
	Party Finance Law	Finland	2010	Article 4	Party finance, Secondary legislation
No candidate, his or her support group, or other entity operating exclusively for the purpose of promoting the candidate may accept any campaign contributions unless the donor can be identified.... [more]

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