Digital Reporting System for Political Parties Zurab Aznaurashvili STATE AUDIT OFFICE of GEORGIA 08.09.2017

Content Monitoring system of Georgia E-reporting

Regulations Election Code of Georgia Organic Law on Political Unions of Citizens Criminal Code of Georgia Decree of Auditor General on Regulation Transparency issues of Political Finances

Power of SAOG Audit activities of political parties and candidates Fill protocol of administrative violation Adopt standards and instructions Request information Bank (only about political parties or candidates) Administrative institutions

Information Submitted to SAOG Annual Declarations Election reports 3-week period reports Donations – 5 business days

Regulations Limitations for donations and member fees: 1 200 GEL – member fees (500 USD) 60 000 GEL – physical persons (25 000 USD) 120 000 GEL – legal entities (50 000 USD) Types of penalties: Double amount (was 10 and 5 times of the amount) Vote buying – x10 and x2 5000 GEL – violation of other regulation

Cases 34 case 2012 Parliamentary 105 case 2013 Presidential 14 case 2014 Local 191 case 2016 Parliamentary 34 case

Donations 28 443 259 GEL 2012 Parliamentary 31 977 331 GEL 2013 Presidential 7 819 663 GEL 2014 Local 9 588 325 GEL 2016 Parliamentary 28 443 259 GEL

Legal Donations 4 026 580 GEL 2012 Parliamentary Prohibited 2013 Presidential O GEL 2014 Local 71 544 GEL 2016 Parliamentary 4 026 580 GEL

Restrictions for Legal Entities Place of registration Partners citizenship Income and profit to donate Not having more then 15% of total income from last year by direct public contract

Content Monitoring system of Georgia E-reporting

History of ICT at SAO FMS First system – in 2012 donations Second system – in 2016 new webpage – www.monitoring.sao.ge donations search engine declaration reporting system - www.fms.sao.ge

New System In April 2016 started developing new webpage In July 2016 started developing reporting software In August 2016 started testing search engine In January 2017 started testing full reporting system

Types of Information Reported With Electronic Systems: Annual declaration Election declarations Donations Cash withdrawal reports Advertisement Without Electronic Systems: Contact details and Bank information

Two step internal confirmation Steps for reporting FMS Admin Open to search Two types of users: 1. Accountant 2. Chief of party Two step internal confirmation http://fms.sao.ge E-mail and password

Reporting software Interface for reporting Interface for staff member External user System admin Interface for staff member Interface for reporting

Searching and filtering: www.monitoring.sao.ge Searching and filtering: Party name Date Type Amount Name ID number

Monitoring With Electronic Systems: Income and Expenses Civil registry Social registry United databases Comparing information with other sources

Increased Transparency Easy to report Easy access to party reports Searchable donation information with filters Searchable names in Google Nice data with statistics

Statistics

Plans of Development Software for submitting appeals and tracking actions taken by SAOG Software for electronic document flow for external users

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