OSCE/ODIHR Opinion on the Draft Amendments to the Act on Establishment of the Slovak National Centre for Human Rights (2) The activity of the Centre is funded by grants from the public budget of the Slovak Republic. (3) Apart from financial resources under para. 2, the Centre also manages donations from domestic of foreign legal entities or natural persons or other public resources. (4) The control of financial management of the Centre is subject to special regulation.3)Government audit office imposes and claims taxes, penalties and fines for violation of financial discipline during management of Centre’s financial resources3a) (5) The Centre is not a trustee of the state assets under a special law.4) §3 The main bodies of the Centre are the Board and the Executive Director. § 3a Composition and Membership of the Board (1) The Board consists of seven members. The members of the Board are: a) one member appointed by the Public Defender of Rights, b) one member jointly appointed by the Commissioner for Children and the Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, c) one member appointed by the President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, d) one member appointed by the board of directors of Slovak Bar Association e) one member appointed by Slovak Syndicate of Journalists f) one member appointed jointly by the Chairman of the Association of Towns and Municipalities of Slovakia and Chairman of Association of self-governing regions g) one member appointed by the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic following a proposal of non-governmental organisation; the procedure of submitting a proposal to appoint a member of the Board is determined by the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic. (2) Each of the subjects under para. 1 shall submit a Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic responsible for the area of human rights (hereinafter referred to as the “respective committee“) a proposal of two candidates for a member of the Board. (3) The respective committee elects one candidate for a member of the Board from each pair proposed under para. 2 and informs the subjects under para. 1 in writing without undue delay. A subject under para. 1 then appoints the candidate elected by the respective committee from the pair of candidates proposed by this subject to serve as member of the Board. (4) A person can be appointed as member of the Board if he/she: a) has unimpeachable integrity, b) has been for at least five years active in the area of human rights or in the area of nondiscrimination. (5) For the purposes of this act, a person is considered to have an unimpeachable integrity under para. 4 subpara. a) if he/she has not been lawfully sentenced for a deliberate crime or crime for which he/she was imposed an unconditional sentence of imprisonment. The 31