Can any one help translate this Chinese into English?

今年初，中消协正式成为财政全额拨款单位，此前中消协因为没有诉讼主体地位，不能代理…





My main problem is with this: 中消协正式成为财政全额拨款单位, this: 诉讼主体地位 and this: 被财政完全吸纳之后





Please do not use machine translations like google etc - they really don't help with translating Chinese.





Thanks!|||At the beginning of the year, China Consumers' Association officially became an entirely subsidized unit. Previously, because CCA did not have the power to press charges, it could not represent consumers in class action lawsuits. Since it had been financially subsumed under the government, this has changed.