Portugal - 2011 Party Finance Law

Title Assessment of the annual accounts of political parties
Chapter 1 - The Entidade das Contas e Financiamentos Pol?ticos (Supervising Body of Political Party Accounting and Funding) is an independent body which works with the Constitutional Court, providing it with technical assistance in the examination and auditing of
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1 - Prior to the end of May, the parties shall submit the accounts of the previous year to the Constitutional Court for examination.

2 - The Constitutional Court shall rule on the legality and regularity of the accounts referred to in article 14, within a period of not more than six months following the date on which they were received.

3 - For the purposes of the preceding paragraph, the Constitutional Court may seek clarification from the political parties, and, in the event that any irregularity is found which can be remedied, will notify them to undertake to remedy them, according to the deadlines which are established.

4 - The period referred to in paragraph 2 shall be suspended until the expiry of the deadline established for the purposes of the preceding paragraph.
Categories - External oversight (Subject of monitoring)
- External oversight (Type of authority)
- Party finance (Report and disclosure)
Source http://www.parlamento.pt/Legislacao/Documents/Legislacao_Anotada/FinanciamentoPartidosPoliticosCampanhasEleitorais_Anotado.pdf
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