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1. "Auditor's report on findings" means a document in which the auditor, who has carried out an independent audit of a political party or a political campaign participant in accordance with the procedure laid down by this Law, shall give evaluations of the data set in the terms of reference approved by the Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter referred to as "the Central Electoral Commission").
2. "Auditor" means a natural person holding the title of the certified auditor granted according to the procedure laid down by the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Audit.
3. "Donations" means cash, movables or immovables, information, property rights, results of intellectual activities, other material and non-material values transferred to a beneficiary without return consideration, actions and voluntary works carried out free of charge as well as results of such actions intended for funding activities of political parties or political campaigns of independent political campaign participants.
4. "Donor" means a person who, in accordance with the procedure laid down by this Law, has the right to make, and has made, a donation for the benefit of a political party or an independent political campaign participant.
5. "Donation sheet" means a document with technological security measures, bearing a series and a number given in the course the production and intended to confirm the transfer-acceptance of a donation.
6. "Candidate" means a person who, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the law, is registered as a potential candidate for President of the Republic or as a candidate for President of the Republic, a candidate in a single-member constituency at elections to the Seimas as well as a candidate in a multi-member constituency at elections to the Seimas, the European Parliament or municipal councils.
7. Political campaign means activities of political campaign participants, voters and other natural and legal persons during the period set by this Law, related to elections to the Seimas, presidential elections, elections to the European Parliament, elections to municipal councils or referendums.
8. "Political advertising" means information disseminated by a state politician, political party, its member, political campaign participant, on behalf and/or in the interest thereof, in any form and through any means, for payment or without return consideration, during the political campaign period or between political campaigns, where such information is intended to influence the motivation of voters when voting at elections or referendums, or where it is disseminated with the purpose of campaigning for a state politician, political party, its member or political campaign participant as well as their ideas, objectives or programme.
9. "Political campaign participant" means a person who seeks to be elected or a referendum issue to be accepted or rejected and who is registered by the Central Electoral Commission in accordance with the procedure laid down by this Law.
10. "Political campaign funding report" means a document in which an independent political campaign participant indicates donations or their sums received for his political campaign broken down into groups of donors, other funds used for his political campaign, donors (presenting a list of donors) as well as incurred expenditure and assumed liabilities (broken down into expenditure groups).
11. "Political campaign expenditure" means expenses specified in this Law intended to organise and fund a political campaign, irrespective of the date of the transaction which entailed expenses.
12. "Political campaign treasurer" means a natural person acting on behalf and in the interest of an independent political campaign participant under a property trust agreement and enjoying the rights and duties defined by this Law.
13. "Political campaign period" means a period beginning when an election date is announced in accordance with the procedure laid down by the law, or a citizens' initiative group for a referendum is registered at the Central Electoral Commission, or a motion is submitted to the Seimas by a group of Seimas members to call a referendum, and ending 100 days after the date of proclamation of the final results of the election (rerun election) or referendum or when the Central Electoral Commission takes a decision in accordance with the procedure laid down by the law to declare the initiative to call a referendum terminated and/or to declare the collecting of signatures terminated.
14. "Political campaign account" means an account of an independent political campaign participant with a bank registered in the Republic of Lithuania, which is used to keep and accumulate funds earmarked for political campaign only and to cover expenditure of this campaign.
15. "Current bank account of a political party" means an account of a political party with a bank registered in the Republic of Lithuania, which is used to keep and accumulate funds of the political party and to cover its expenses earmarked to carry out activities of the political party, as defined by the law.
16. "Monitoring of funding of political parties and political campaigns, and of political advertising" means collection, accumulation, analysis and evaluation for the purposes defined by this Law of the data about the funding of political parties, political campaigns and their participants, the funding and dissemination of election (referendum) campaigning and political advertising during the period of political campaigns and between them.
17. "Potential candidate" means a natural person who satisfies statutory requirements for standing as a candidate, who has declared during the period from the beginning of a political campaign to the end of submission of application documents that he will stand as a candidate, and who has concluded an agreement with the political campaign treasurer and has been registered as an independent political campaign participant in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Central Electoral Commission.
18. "Referendum initiators" means members of an initiative group of citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who are registered at the Central Electoral Commission in accordance with the procedure laid down by the law or a group of Seimas members which has submitted a motion to call a referendum.
19. "Referendum opponents" means persons who are registered at the Central Electoral Commission in accordance with the procedure laid down by the law, i.e. citizens of the Republic of Lithuania, their groups, and political parties, opposing referendum initiators.
20. "Election (referendum) campaigning" means activities for disseminating political advertising during the election (referendum) campaigning stage, for the purpose of influencing motivation of voters when voting at elections or a referendum.
21. "Person responsible for the accounting of a political party" means a chief accountant (accountant) of the political party or a company providing accounting services under the contract.
22. "State budget appropriations" means the sum total of funds assigned to political parties, as fixed in the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Approval of Financial Indicators of the State Budget and Municipal Budgets for the Corresponding Year.
23. "Account of state budget appropriations" means an account of a political party with a bank registered in the Republic of Lithuania, which is used to keep and accumulate state budget appropriations received only in accordance with the procedure laid down by this Law and to cover expenses provided for in this Law.
24. "Declaration of a public information producer or disseminator" means a document to be submitted to the Central Electoral Commission, by which a public information producer or disseminator declares the disseminated political advertisements, indicates the price, rates, publishing (space) of the disseminated political advertisements and the person in the interest of whom the political advertisements have been disseminated as well as the person who has commissioned the production or dissemination of the political advertisements and the person who has paid for the dissemination of the political advertisements.