Lithuania - 2010 Party Finance Law

Title Article 28 - Gross violations of this Law
Chapter VI - Liabilities
Article

28

1. The following shall be considered to be gross violations of this Law:
1) financing of a political party or a political campaign participant not with the funds defined by this Law or the donations of the persons who under this Law do not have the right to make donations;
2) if a political campaign participants makes decisions to use for political campaign the donations received from the persons who have no right to fund political campaigns, or from the unallowable sources of funding of the political campaign;
3) if a political campaign participant concludes political campaign funding agreements by violating the requirements of this Law;
4) presentment of knowingly false data in a set of financial statements of the political party, a political campaign funding statement;
5) use of state budget appropriations not in accordance with the designation set out in this Law;
6) exceeding of the fixed maximum amount of political campaign expenditure by 10 or more per cent;
7) if political campaign participant's expenditure on undeclared political advertising makes up 10 or more per cent of the fixed maximum amount of political campaign expenditure;
8) if political campaign participant's expenditure on undeclared political advertising makes up 10 or more per cent of the fixed maximum amount of political campaign expenditure;
9) loss of the documents subject to safekeeping, other activities because of which it is impossible to determine whether a set of financial statements of the political party or a political campaign report of the political campaign participant is accurate;
10) dissemination of surreptitious political advertising, if the expenditure on surreptitious political advertising makes up 10 or more per cent of the fixed maximum amount of political campaign expenditure;
11) dissemination of political campaign through foreign broadcasters by violating the requirements of this law for political advertising;
12) exceeding of the expenditure fixed in paragraph 2 of Article 19 of this Law for election campaigning video clips during the political campaign period.
2. The Central Electoral Commission shall take a decision whether a political party or a political campaign participant has grossly violated this Law.
3. The political party or the political campaign participant shall have the right to appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania against the adopted decision, referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, within five working days after the adoption of such decision.

Categories - Electoral party (Campaign activity)
- External oversight (Sanctions)
- External oversight (Subject of monitoring)
- External oversight (Type of authority)
- Media access (Restrictions)
- Party finance (Private funding)
- Party finance (Report and disclosure)
Source http://www.legislationline.org/documents/id/16508