Germany - 2004 Party Law

Title Article 31a Return Claims for State Funds
Section VI Procedures for Inaccurate Statements of Account and Penal Provisions
Article

31a

(1) If bestowals were unlawfully indicated in the statement of account (Article 18 (3), no. 3, sentence 1) and the state funds that the party was entitled to were therefore wrongly fixed, the President of the German Bundestag shall revoke the fixing of the state funds pursuant to Article 19a (1). This shall not apply if the correction is made in the statement of account for the following year (Article 23a (5), sentence 3). Article 48 (2) of the Administrative Procedure Act shall not apply.
(2) No revocation shall be possible after the end of the time period fixed in Article 24 (2).
(3) With the revocation, the President of the German Bundestag shall fix the amount that has to be reimbursed by the party in an administrative act. If a settlement emerges in the further course of the state funding procedure, the difference shall be taken into account in the next installment paid to the party.
(4) The amounts fixed and disbursed to the other parties shall remain unaffected.
(5) The parties shall include provisions in their statutes in case action pursuant to Paragraph 1 is caused by Land branches or subordinate regional branches.

Categories - External oversight (Sanctions)
- External oversight (Subject of monitoring)
- External oversight (Type of authority)
- Extra-parliamentary party (Organizational structure)
- Extra-parliamentary party (Registration reqs.)
- Party finance (Direct public funding)
- Party finance (Report and disclosure)
- Secondary legislation (Secondary legislation)
Source http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/parteien/downloads/parteiengesetz_engl.pdf