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(1) The Permanent Electoral Authority is the public authority which has the power to control compliance with the legal provisions on the financing of political parties, political or electoral alliances, independent candidates and election campaigns.
(2) The control of subsidies from the state budget shall be carried out simultaneously by the Court of Accounts, according to the provisions of Law no. 94/1992 on the organization and operation of the Court of Accounts, republished.
(3) Within 60 days as of the entry into force of this law, the Permanent Electoral Authority sets up the Department for the control of the financing of political parties and election campaigns, by making extra recruitments to the existing staff scheme.
(4) The Department for the control of the financing of political parties and election campaigns is run by a general manager appointed within 90 days as of the entry into force of this law.
(5) Any person who cumulatively meets the following requirements can be appointed general manager of the Department for the control of the financing of political parties and election campaigns:
a) s/he can hold a position under the terms set at art. 12 paragraph (1) letters a) - h) of Law no. 7/2006 on the statute of the parliamentary public servant, republished;
b) s/he has academic education in the field of economic or legal sciences;
c) s/he has not been a member of a political parry for the last 5 years.
(6) The competition for the position specified at paragraph (4) s organized by a special committee made of 7 members, appointed within 30 days as of the entry into force of this law, through order of the chairman of the Permanent Electoral Authority, made of faculty with economic or legal background.
(7) The committee specified at paragraph (6) shall draft the competition regulation and shall designate the winner, who will be designated by the chairman of the Permanent Electoral Authority, within 15 days as if the designation.
(8) The general manager of the Department for the control of the financing of political parties and election campaigns has the following exclusive attributes:
a) to organize the activity for the control of financing of political parties;
b) to coordinate the activity of the subordinate staff;
c) to propose to the chairman of the Permanent Electoral Authority the application of the sanctions stipulated by this law.