If appeal is possible, what is the competent body to hear the appeal?
Latvia
Law on Pre-Election Campaign, (as of 2013, in Latvian)
Source: http://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=253543
Section 29 (1) If during pre-electioncampaign the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau determines that apolitical organization or association of political organizations has conductedpre-election campaign for a sum exceeding the admissible amount of pre-electionexpenditure stipulated in the Law On Financing of Political Organizations(Parties) or a person has conducted campaign for a sum exceeding the amount ofexpenditure referred to in Section 5, paragraph two of this Law, the head ofthe Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau shall take a decision regardingprohibition to conduct further pre-election campaign for a fee.
(3)The decision referred to in Paragraph one of this Section may be appealed to the Administrative DistrictCourt. Submission of an application to the court shall not suspend theoperation of the decision.
(4)The court shall, withinthree working days from the date of receipt of the application, examinethe cases referred to in Paragraph five of this Section in accordance with theprocedures stipulated in the Administrative Procedure Law. The burden of proofshall lie with the participants of administrative proceedings. If the lawdetermines a time period for execution of any procedural step, however, theconditions referred to in this Paragraph would not be complied with inexecuting the respective procedural time period, the judge (court) shalldetermine a respective time period for execution of the procedural step.
(5) The decision of theAdministrative District Court, adopted based on an appeal of the decisionsprescribed in paragraph one of this law is final and enters into force immediately.
According to new Law on Pre-ElectionCampaign (effective from January 2013) the decision of the CorruptionPrevention and Combating Bureau on banning further pre-election campaign of aparty which violated the regulations of campaign financing can be appealed inthe Administrative District Court. The decision of the Court is final andcannot be further adjudicated. Thus the Administrative District Court is theonly (both first, and last) instance for adjudicating decision on issue relatedto campaign financing.