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

2. Content
Monitoring system of Georgia
E-reporting

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. Regulations Limitations for donations and member fees:
1 200 GEL – member fees (500 USD)
GEL – physical persons ( USD)
GEL – legal entities ( 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

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

8. Donations 28 443 259 GEL 2012 Parliamentary 31 977 331 GEL
2013 Presidential
GEL
2014 Local
GEL
2016 Parliamentary
GEL

9. Legal Donations 4 026 580 GEL 2012 Parliamentary Prohibited
2013 Presidential
O GEL
2014 Local
GEL
2016 Parliamentary
GEL

10. 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

11. Content
Monitoring system of Georgia
E-reporting

12. History of ICT at SAO FMS
First system – in 2012
donations
Second system – in 2016
new webpage –
donations search engine
declaration reporting system -

13. 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

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

15. 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
and password

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

17. Searching and filtering:
Searching and filtering:
Party name Date Type Amount Name ID number

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

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

20. Statistics

21. 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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