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1. The following shall have the right to make donations to political parties and political campaign participants:
1) citizens of the Republic of Lithuania - to participants of all political campaigns and to all political parties;
2) permanent residents of the Republic of Lithuania holding citizenship of another EU Member State - to participants and political parties of campaigns of elections to the European Parliament and municipal councils;
3) permanent residents of the Republic of Lithuania who do not hold citizenship of another EU Member State or stateless persons - to participants of political campaigns of elections to municipal councils;
4) the private legal persons registered in the Republic of Lithuania whose authorised capital does not comprise state or municipal capital and whose share of the authorised capital and (or) voting rights, granting the right to control activities of the legal person, belongs only to the natural persons referred to in subparagraph 1 of paragraph 1 of this Article, the legal persons registered in the Republic of Lithuania or the private legal persons of the NATO or EU member states - to all political campaigns participants and political parties.
2. Political parties shall enjoy the right to make donations for political campaigns of candidates, lists of candidates or referendums.
3. Political party or political campaign funding agreements which confirm property and non-property (political) obligations of the political party or the political campaign participant (donor) and the beneficiary must be drawn up in writing. The said agreements must be signed by the political party (beneficiary) and the donor or the political campaign participant (beneficiary), the political campaign treasurer and the donor. Political party or political campaign funding agreements must be announced publicly and may not be contrary to public policy or morality. It shall be prohibited to conclude secret obligations. A copy of the political party funding agreement together with a set of financial statements of the political party as well as a copy of the political campaign funding agreement together with a political campaign funding statement must be transferred to the Central Electoral Commission which must post the texts of the agreements on the website of the Central Electoral Commission.
4. Agreements between donors and beneficiaries related to commitments to private (personal and (or) group) interests shall be prohibited.
5. Persons elected to state or municipal institutions shall be prohibited from representing donors' private (personal and (or) group) interests and taking decisions which are exceptional favourable to them.