1The proceeds gained from the implementation of this law, shall serve for raising a special fund for preventing criminality and the legal education. The special fund and its amount shall be determined in the budget legislation.

2This fund serves for:

aimproving the functioning of criminal justice, designating assets in the administration of the General Prosecutor’s Office, of the Special Prosecution Office and of the Ministry of Justice;

bimproving preliminary criminal investigations into organised crime and developing programmes of the protection of witnesses and justice collaborators, designating the assets in the administration of the ministry that covers issues of public order;

cgiving assistance to the victims of organised crime and trafficking, as well as encouraging social programmes for those categories, designating assets in the administration of the ministry that covers social issues.

çcompensation for the victims of organized crime and trafficking to the extent determined by judicial decision.

3In addition to the central institutions, the beneficiaries of the financing of projects for the prevention of criminality may also be:

athe units of local government where the confiscated immovable assets are located;

bnon-profit organisations that have within the scope of their activity the social, cultural and health rehabilitation of vulnerable categories of people, especially those affected or endangered by crime, including therapeutic centres and organisations, centres of re-capacitating and curing users of narcotic substances, as well as centres of assistance and rehabilitation of the victims of trafficking in human beings, which have been conducting such activities in the last three years from submission of the request.

4The requirements for the financing of projects according to this Article, the verification and preparation of documentation for an opinion in the Inter-institutional Expert Committee for Measures against Organised Crime, as well as following up their implementation, are done by the structures of the Agency of Administration of Sequestered and Confiscated Assets.

5Relying on the recommendation of the Inter-institutional Expert Committee for Measures against Organised Crimes, the Minister of Finance, by order, determines the financing of a project and the ways of use of the fund made available to the applicant.

6The part of the fund designated according to point 2 of this Article cannot be used for compensation of functionaries of the beneficiary institutions.