57. What power is granted to the institution(s) responsible for examining reports and/or investigating violations?

The Committee is entitled to obtain, for auditing purposes, all necessary or useful information and documents from the administrative managers and political leaders of parties and movements, or from any other person within the party holding such information and documents. Moreover, the Committee may carry out assessments, inspections and controls at the headquarters of parties or movements. The Auditing Committee must report to the competent authority (court) any alleged offence identified following the examination of accounting records. It generally takes around 20 work days over an eight month period for the auditors to supervise political accounts.
Source: GRECO (2016), Third Evaluation Round, Evaluation Report on San Marino, Transparency of Party Funding, (Theme II), GRECO, Strasbourg

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