The Ministry of Justice calls upon public associations, foundations, religious organizations and their components to submit the list of beneficiaries of the 2% Law to the Ministry until December 29, IPN reports.

The regulations concerning the percentage allocation mechanism was approved by the Government on November 30 and was published in the Official Gazette on December 2. The applicants can benefit from this mechanism,if they have worked for at least a year, do not have debts to the national public budget for the previous fiscal periods and carry out public utility/social, moral, cultural or charity activities. The application for inclusion for 2017 can be submitted within 29 workdays of the coming into force of the legal act.

The potential beneficiaries must indicate in the document their name, the date of registration, state identification number, contact data, implemented activities and bank data to which the amounts will be transferred. They must also submit an own responsibility statement to show that they didn’t support and, while using the allocated percentage, will not support any party, sociopolitical organization or a candidate in elections.

Afterward, between September 1 and 30 of each year, the applicants will submit registration applications, while the organizations that were already included in the lists of beneficiaries will be automatically transferred, if the exclusion wasn’t asked by a written application. If the applicant does not present the complete information, the Ministry of Justice will notify this by email within 20 days of the submission deadline and, during ten days of the receipt of the notification, will be able to remove the shortcomings.