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Chapter III. State Registration of a Political Party
Article 15. State Registration of a Political Party and Its Regional Branches
Article 16. Documents to Be Submitted for State Registration of a Political Party Created at the Constituent Congress of the Political Party
Article 17. Documents to Be Submitted For State Registration of a Political Party Created By Way of Transformation of an All-Russian Public Organization or an All-Russian Public Movement Into a Political Party.
Article 18. Documents to Be Submitted For State Registration of a Regional Branch of a Political Party
Article 19. Information about Registered Political Parties
Article 20. Grounds for Denying State Registration of a Political Party or Its Regional Branch
Article 15. State Registration of a Political Party and Its Regional Branches
1. A political party and its regional branches shall be subject to state registration to be carried out in the procedure established by this Federal Law. A political party and its regional branches shall conduct full-scale activities, specifically as legal entities, after their state registration. State registration of a political party or its regional branches shall be confirmed by the state registration certificate of the political party or its regional branch.
2. State registration of a political party and its regional branches shall be carried out by the federal registration body and territorial registration agencies, respectively (hereafter "registration authorities").
3. The documents required for state registration of a political party shall be presented to the federal registration body within six months of the date of the constituent congress of the political party or the congress of an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement which adopted a resolution to transform the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement into a political party.
4. State registration of regional branches of a political party shall be carried out after state registration of the political party. In more than a half of the subjects of the Russian Federation state registration of regional branches of a political party shall be carried out within six months of the date of state registration of the political party.
5. Having established that the documents required for state registration of a political party or its regional branches comply with the requirements of this Federal Law, the registration authorities shall, within a month upon receipt of the documents, issue a state registration certificate of the political party or its regional branch to the authorized representatives of the political party or its regional branch.
6. If, within a month of the last day of the period specified in Clause 4 of this Article, a political party fails to submit copies of certificates of state registration of its regional branches in more than a half of the subjects of the Russian Federation to the federal registration body, the state registration certificate of the political party shall be invalidated and the entry about creation of this political party shall be removed from the unified state register of legal entities.
7. The periods specified in Clauses 4 and 6 of this Article shall be extended if the decision to deny state registration of a regional branch of a political party has been appealed to a court and on the last day of these periods the court decision is still pending.
8. If other structural subdivisions of a political party are granted the status of a legal entity under the statutes of this political party, state registration of such structural subdivisions shall be carried out in the procedure established for state registration of regional branches of a political party. In this case, such structural subdivisions of a political party shall be subject to the requirements established by this Federal Law with respect to state registration of regional branches of a political party, except for the second and the third paragraph of Clause 2, Article 3 of this Federal Law.
9. A registration fee shall be charged for state registration of a political party and its regional branches in the procedure established by Russian Federation laws.
The registration fee for state registration of a political party shall amount to fifty times the minimum monthly wage established by the federal law as of March 1 of the year preceding the year of state registration of the political party. The registration fee for state registration of a regional branch of a political party shall amount to three times the minimum monthly wage established by the federal law as of March 1 of the year preceding the year of state registration of the regional branch of the political party.
Article 16. Documents to Be Submitted for State Registration of a Political Party Created at the Constituent Congress of the Political Party
1. The following documents shall be submitted to the federal registration body for state registration of a political party created at the constituent congress of the political party:
a) an application signed by the authorized representatives of the political party, indicating their full names, address of the place of residence and contact telephones;
b) the statutes of the political party, in duplicate, duly bound, page-numbered and certified by the authorized representatives of the political party;
c) the program of the political party certified by the authorized representatives of the political party;
d) copies of the resolutions of the constituent congress of the political party on the creation of the political party, on the adoption of its statutes, on the approval of its program, on the creation of regional branches of the political party, on the formation of its leading and supervisory-auditing bodies, with the information concerning the representation of delegates at the congress and the voting results, the said copies being certified by the authorized representatives of the political party;
e) a document certifying payment of a registration fee;
f) a document certifying provision of a legal address to the political party;
g) an issue of the national newspaper or periodical which published information about the venue and date of the constituent congress of the political party;
h) copies of the minutes of conferences or general meetings of regional branches of the political party held in more than a half of the subjects of the Russian Federation, indicating the number of members of the political party in its regional branches complying with the requirements of Clause 2, Article 3 of this Federal Law and the location of the leading bodies of regional branches of the political party, the said copies being certified by the authorized representatives of regional branches of the political party;
2. On the day of receipt of the documents indicated in Clause 1 of this Article the federal registration body shall issue a document confirming their receipt to the authorized representatives of the political party. The federal registration body shall not require a political party to submit any documents for its state registration other than those listed in Clause 1 of this Article.
Article 17. Documents to Be Submitted For State Registration of a Political Party Created By Way of Transformation of an All-Russian Public Organization or an All-Russian Public Movement Into a Political Party.
1. The following documents shall be submitted to the federal registration body for state registration of a political party created by way of transformation of an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement into a political party:
a) an application signed by the authorized representatives of the All-Russian public organization, the All-Russian public movement or some other body responsible for their transformation into a political party, indicating the full names, address of the place of residence and contact telephones of such representatives;
b) the statutes of the political party, in duplicate, duly bound, page-numbered and certified by the authorized representatives of the All-Russian public organization, the All-Russian public movement or some other body responsible for their transformation into a political party;
c) the program of the political party certified by the authorized representatives of the All-Russian public organization, the All-Russian public movement or some other body responsible for their transformation into a political party;
d) copies of the resolutions of the congress of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement on their transformation into a political party, on the adoption of the statutes of the political party, on the approval of its program, on the transformation of regional branches of the All-Russian political organization or the all-Russian political movement into regional branches of the political party, on the formation of its leading and supervisory-auditing bodies, with the information concerning the representation of delegates at the congress and the voting results, the said copies being certified by the authorized representatives of the All-Russian public organization, the All-Russian public movement or some other body responsible for their transformation into a political party;
e) a document certifying payment of a registration fee;
f) a document certifying provision of a legal address to the political party;
g) an issue of the national newspaper or periodical which published information about the venue and date of the congress of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement convened for their transformation into a political party;
h) copies of the minutes of conferences or general meetings of regional branches of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement held in more than a half of the subjects of the Russian Federation, containing the resolutions on transformation of the regional branches of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement into regional branches of a political party and indicating the number of members of the political party in its regional branches complying with the requirements of Clause 2, Article 3 of this Federal Law and the location of the leading bodies of regional branches of the political party, the said copies being certified by the authorized representatives of regional branches of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement;
i) a transfer deed of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement to be drawn up in conformity with the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
2. On the day of receipt of the documents indicated in Clause 1 of this Article the federal registration body shall issue a document confirming their receipt to the authorized representatives of the political party. The federal registration body shall not require a political party to submit any documents for its state registration other than those listed in Clause 1 of this Article.
Article 18. Documents to Be Submitted For State Registration of a Regional Branch of a Political Party
1. The following documents shall be submitted to the territorial registration agency for state registration of a regional branch of a political party;
a) a copy of the resolution of the constituent congress of the political party or the congress of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement to create (transform) regional (territorial) branches of the political party or a copy of the resolution of an authorized body of the political party to create (transform) regional (territorial) branches of the political party;
b) a copy of the state registration certificate of the political party certified by the authorized representatives of the political party;
c) copies of the statutes and the program of the political party certified by the authorized representatives of the political party;
d) a copy of the minutes of the conference or general meeting of the regional branch of the political party, indicating the number of members of the political party in its regional branch and the location of the leading bodies of the regional branch of the political party, the said copy being certified by the authorized representatives of the regional branch of a political party;
e) a document certifying payment of a registration fee;
f) a document certifying provision of a legal address to the political party.
2. On the day of receipt of the documents indicated in Clause 1 of this Article, the territorial registration agency shall issue a document confirming their receipt to the authorized representatives of the political party. The territorial registration agency shall not require a political party to submit any documents for state registration of a regional branch of the political party, other than those listed in Clause 1 of this Article.
Article 19. Information about Registered Political Parties
1. Information about creation and liquidation of political parties shall be published in the national print media.
2. The registration authorities shall make entries concerning state registration of political parties and their regional branches in the unified state register of legal entities which shall be open to general public.
3. Within two months upon the entry into force of this Federal Law the federal registration body shall open a special site in the public information-telecommunications network and shall publish the address of this site in Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
4. The federal registration body shall annually publish the list of political parties and their regional branches as of January 1 in the national print media and on a special site in the public information-telecommunications network, indicating the date of registration of each political party and each of its regional branches. The said site shall also show consolidated annual financial statements of political parties, contact telephones of permanent leading bodies of political parties and their regional branches and other open information about political parties.
5. Upon request of election commissions the registration authorities shall, within ten days of receipt of such request, furnish them with the lists of political parties and their regional branches which satisfy the requirements of Clause 2, Article 36 of this Federal Law as of the day on which the request was received.
6. The information about the members of a political party to be furnished to the registration authorities shall be classified as information with restricted access. The disclosure of the information indicated in this clause without the consent of political party members concerned shall entail liability established by Russian Federation laws..
Article 20. Grounds for Denying State Registration of a Political Party or Its Regional Branch
1. A political party may be denied state registration if:
a) the provisions of the statutes of the political party are contrary to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, this Federal Law and other federal laws;
b) the name and/or the symbols of the political party do not meet the requirements of Article 6 and 7 of this Federal Law;
c) the documents required for state registration of the political party under this Federal Law have not been submitted;
d) the federal registration body has established that the information contained in the documents submitted for state registration of the political party does not meet the requirements of this Federal Law;
e) the deadlines set by this Federal Law for submission of documents required for state registration of the political party have been missed.
2. A regional branch of the political party may be denied state registration if:
a) the documents required for state registration of the regional branch of the political party under this Federal Law have not been submitted;
b) the territorial registration agency has established that the information contained in the documents submitted for state registration of the regional branch of the political party does not meet the requirements of this Federal Law.
3. The program of a political party shall be submitted exclusively for the information of the federal registration body. Any errors or inaccuracies in the program of a political party shall not serve as a reason for denying state registration of the political party except for violation of the requirements set forth in Clause 1, Article 9 of this Federal Law. The federal registration body shall not require a political party to make any changes in its program.
4. Having taken a decision to deny state registration of a political party or its regional branch, the registration authorities shall inform the applicant to this effect in writing within a month upon receipt of the submitted documents, referring to violation of the specific provisions of the Russian Federation laws as result of which state registration of the given political party or its regional branch has been denied.
5. The denial or avoidance of state registration of a political party or its regional branch may be appealed to a court. The appeal of a political party or its regional branch against denial of state registration shall be examined by a court within a month of the day on which it was filed. Denial of state registration of a political party or its regional branch shall not be an obstacle to repeated submission of documents for state registration of the political party or its regional branch to the registration authorities, provided the grounds for such denial have been eliminated. The registration authorities shall examine and decide on the newly submitted documents in the procedure established by this Federal Law for state registration of a political party or its regional branch.
6. Within a month upon the entry into force of this Federal Law the federal registration body shall approve the samples of documents required for state registration of a political party and its regional branch and publish them in Rossiiskaya Gazeta .
7. Within a month upon their approval the samples of documents required for state registration of a political party and its regional branch shall also be published by the federal registration body on a special site in the public information-telecommunications network.
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