Laws » Party Law in Modern Europe

	Law.type	Law.country_id	Law.year	Article.number	Categories
	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]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 39	Party finance
(1) No expenditure made for electoral campaigns shall be reimbursed for previous mandates.(2) Only the amounts received under Art. 18 as a party's share of the global amount of expenditure for... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	1967	Article 40	Secondary legislation
Pursuant to Art. 13, para 1 of the Third Transitional Act in relation to the capitulation of Germany of 4th January 1952 (published in the federal Legislative Bulletin, Part I, page 1), this Act... [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]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 4	Electoral party, Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The name of the party must be clearly distinguishable from that of any existing party; this shall also apply to acronyms. In canvassing and the electoral procedure, only the registered name or... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 5	Party finance
(1) Where a public authority provides facilities or other public services for use by one party, equal treatment must be accorded to all parties. The scale on which such facilities and services are... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 6	Electoral party, External...
(1) A party must have written statutes and a written program. The regional branches shall conduct their affairs on the basis of their own statutes, unless specified otherwise in the statutes of... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 7	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) Parties shall be organized in regional branches. The size and scope of the regional branches shall be laid down in the statutes. The regional structure of the party must be developed to a... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 8	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The members' assembly and executive committee constitute the essential bodies of the party and its regional branches. The statutes may state that in the supra-local branches the members'... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 9	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The members' or delegates' assembly (party convention, general assembly) is the supreme body of a regional branch. In higher-level regional branches, this assembly is called a "party... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 10	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) Pursuant to the detailed provisions of the statutes, the competent bodies of the party shall freely decide on the admission of new members. No reasons need to be given for rejecting an... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 11	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The executive committee shall be elected at least every two calendar years. It must comprise at least three members.(2) By virtue of the statutes, the executive committee may include members... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 12	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) Members of general party committees and similar institutions endowed pursuant to the statutes with extensive powers for deliberating or deciding on questions of party policy and organization... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 13	Extra-parliamentary party
The composition of a delegates' assembly or of any other body wholly or partly comprising delegates from regional branches must be laid down in the statutes. The number of delegates from a... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 14	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) Courts of arbitration shall be set up at least at party level and at the top-level regional branches to settle and decide on disputes between the party or a regional branch and individual... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 15	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The bodies shall adopt their resolutions on the basis of a simple majority vote unless a higher majority vote is prescribed by law or by the statutes.(2) The elections of the members of the... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 16	Extra-parliamentary party
(1) The dissolution and expulsion of subordinate regional branches or the removal from office of whole bodies of the aforementioned shall be permissible only in cases of serious infringement of... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 17	Extra-parliamentary party
The nomination of candidates for elections to parliaments must be by secret ballot. The nomination procedure shall be as prescribed by the electoral laws and party statutes. [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 18	External oversight,...
(1) The parties shall receive funds as a contribution towards the funding of the duties generally incumbent upon them under the Basic Law. The allocation of state funds shall depend on the success... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 19	External oversight,...
(1) The parties must apply to the President of the German Bundestag in writing by 30 September of the year of entitlement for the fixing and disbursement of the state funds for the year of... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 19a	External oversight, Party finance
(1) The President of the German Bundestag shall fix the volume of state funds each eligible party is entitled to for the previous year (year of entitlement) by 15 February each year. He may only... [more]
	Party Law	Germany	2004	Article 20	External oversight, Party finance
(1) Parties entitled to state funds must be granted installments on the amount established by the President of the German Bundestag. Such payments shall be calculated on the basis of the funds... [more]

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