Overview:

• Recognition and registration are amalgamated rather than ideally differentiated; a focus is placed on legal registration rather than existential recognition; a system of partial recognition exists due to the fact that the Catholic Church has a concordat with the government, a type of agreement that no other groups have currently.

• It remains unclear whether procedures for religious entities are distinct from those of secular entities.

• The degree of accessibility for non-Catholic organisations to establish bilateral cooperation agreements with the government remains unclear.

• The parliament of the country voting on the registration applications of religious groups politicise a process that should remain ectopolitical (beyond politics).

• Informational requirements seem appropriate but require continued monitor to ensure they are not expanded any further or misused.

• The multi-step process of registration is restrictive by its nature.

• It remains unclear as to whether the procedures for registering religious entities and secular entities are distinguished.

Positive elements:

• Nil.

Recommendations:

• To become receptive, establish a recognition system that has the capacity to bestow existential recognition and legal registration simultaneously for all belief systems and their derivatives and at different levels of activity and operation.

• Remove all instances of politicisation.