If appeal is possible, what is the competent body to hear the appeal?
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- Court of general jurisdiction (including Supreme Court)
- Audit agency, National Council
Law 3023/2002 Article 23: Generalprovisions
1. Parties, coalitions and parliamentary candidates shall be subject to penalties in case of violation of this law, according to the following articles.
2. a. After thereport is prepared by the Audit Commission and if it proposes that the fileshould be referred to the Superior Special Court under article 26 of this law, or that penalties should be applied to the parties or coalitions and toparliamentary candidates, a copy of it shall be communicated by means of acourt executor to the relevant bodies of the party, under article 15, or to theparliamentary candidates. b. The above bodies or the parliamentary candidatessubmit, within the exclusive period of fifteen (15) days from the communication of the report, remarks for the rebuttal of its content. c. The Audit Commission, after examining such remarks, submits its final report to the President of the Superior Special Court,if a violation is found that can cause a member of parliament to lose their office, or to the President of the Parliament if penalties are proposed.
3. Penalties to parties, coalitions of parties andparliamentary candidates are applied with a justified decision of the Presidentof the Parliament, published in the Government Gazette. This decision is issuedwithin fifteen (15) days of the submission of the final report by theAudit Commission and communicated to the offender and the Minister of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation.
4. The fine applied to parties and coalitions iscollected by withholding the amount from the funding for the next year. Thefine applied to other p arties and parliamentary candidates is collectedaccording to the provision of the Code for the Collection of Public Income(CCPI).
5. The judicial means exercised by parties, coalitionsand parliamentary candidates against the decisions for the application of fines, regarding penalties, in the application of theprovisions of this law, introduce substantial administrative disputes, whichare judged in the first and last degree by the National Council.
6. A joint decision of the Ministers of Economy and Finance and of Interior, Public Administrationand Decentralisation, published in the Government Gazette, determines themanner in which the applied fine is to be collected and every detail regardingthe penalties applied to the political parties and coalitions of parties and to parliamentary candidates, according to the provisions of this law
