Riinvest Institute 2014

19 Kosovo Institute of Justice 2013.
20 Justice and the People 2013. “Citizens’ Rights and the 
Accountability of the Kosovo Justice System” pg. 4.
21 Ibid
22 European Court of Auditors 2012. “European Union 
Assistance to Kosovo Related to Rule of Law” pg. 22.
23 Ibid 
Judicial Council and Prosecutorial Council do not 
publish the names of the judges and prosecutors that 
have been found guilty of wrongdoing. The usual jus-
tification for not doing so is not to damage the spe-
cific officials’ reputation or breach privacy rights.
24
One positive step that has been taken by the Koso-
vo Chamber of Advocates is the adoption of the new 
Statute and Regulation of Disciplinary Procedure 
which allows publishing of all the names of lawyers 
who have been found guilty of any misconduct.
25
The last, but not the least problem, deals with the fail-
ure of courts to provide written records in the mother 
tongue of the affected party.
26
This proves very bur-
densome to affected parties since they do not under-
stand the actions taken against them, thus violating 
their rights.
24 Justice and the People 2013. “Citizens’ Rights and the 
Accountability of the Kosovo Justice System” pg.4.
25 Kosovo Chamber of Commerc
e 2014. 
26 Justice and the People 2013. “Citizens’ Rights and the 
Accountability of the Kosovo Justice System” pg.5. 

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Transparency in financing political parties and their 
electoral campaigns is of a vital importance for Kosovo; 
especially when having in mind that this country aspires 
to be part of the Open Governance Partnership (OGP) 
platform. In an attempt to provide a uniform frame-
work for registering, reporting, and disclosing incomes 
and expenditures of political parties, the parliament of 
Kosovo passed a very important law - the Law on Polit-
ical Parties Financing.
27
Although this law provides a 
relatively good basis to ensure transparency, the Koso-
van political parties and other institutions responsible 
for its implementation, failed to fully comply with it, 
thus creating many ambiguities with respect to their 
financing. The following paragraphs of this sub-section, 
present some law-violating financial activities in which 
political parties in Kosovo have been involved. Addition-
ally, some of the paragraphs demonstrate a number of 
legal loopholes that make the actual legal framework 
for financing political parties not very adequate. 
The law on Political Parties Financing
28
and CEC (Cen-
tral Election Commission) rules
29
oblige political parties 
to keep books on income (amount of income, name of 
the donor, and their ID number), expenditures (the date 
of each expense, the amount of each expense, and the 
name of each vendor), and assets. According to the