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Art. 36, para. 2 Prominent political figures within the meaning of para. 1 are natural persons who perform or have been entrusted with the following important public functions:

• heads of state, heads of government, ministers and deputy ministers or assistant ministers;
• members of parliaments or other legislative bodies;
• members of constitutional courts, supreme courts or other supreme bodies of the judiciary, whose decisions are not subject to subsequent appeal except in exceptional circumstances;
• members of the Court of Auditors;
• members of central bank governing bodies;
• ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions;
• senior officers of the armed forces;
• members of administrative, management or supervisory bodies of state enterprises and companies with sole owner - the state;
• mayors and deputy mayors of municipalities, mayors and deputy mayors of regions and chairmen of municipal councils;
• members of the governing bodies of political parties;
• heads and deputy heads of international organizations, members of management or supervisory bodies in international organizations or persons performing an equivalent function in such organizations.

The categories defined in items 1 - 7 shall include, as appropriate, positions in the institutions and bodies of the European Union and in international organizations. The categories defined in items 1 - 8 do not include officials at middle or lower level.

Art. 36, para. 5 For the purposes of para. 1 for "related parties" are considered:

• spouses or persons living in de facto cohabitation on a marital basis; the first-degree descendants and their spouses or the persons with whom the first-degree descendants live in de facto cohabitation on a marital basis;
• first-degree ascendants and their spouses or persons with whom first-degree ascendants live in de facto cohabitation;second-degree lateral relatives and their spouses or persons with whom second-degree lateral relatives live in de facto cohabitation on a marital basis;
• any natural person who is known to be the beneficial owner together with a person under para. 2 of a legal entity or other legal entity or is in other close commercial, professional or other business relations with a person under para. 2;
• any natural person who is the sole owner or actual owner of a legal entity or other legal entity, which is known to have been established in favor of a person under para. 2.

Art. 36, para. 5 For the purposes of para. 1 for "related parties" are considered:

• spouses or persons living in de facto cohabitation on a marital basis; the first-degree descendants and their spouses or the persons with whom the first-degree descendants live in de facto cohabitation on a marital basis;
• first-degree ascendants and their spouses or persons with whom first-degree ascendants live in de facto cohabitation;second-degree lateral relatives and their spouses or persons with whom second-degree lateral relatives live in de facto cohabitation on a marital basis;
• any natural person who is known to be the beneficial owner together with a person under para. 2 of a legal entity or other legal entity or is in other close commercial, professional or other business relations with a person under para. 2;
• any natural person who is the sole owner or actual owner of a legal entity or other legal entity, which is known to have been established in favor of a person under para. 2.