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(1) Where a government institution provides facilities and equipment or other grants to be used by a party, it must accord equal treatment to all other parties. The scope of such grants may be graded to conform with the importance of the parties to the minimum extent needed for the achievement of their goals. The importance of a party is determined primarily by the results of the previous elections for members of parliament. In the case of parties represented in the Bundestag as fractions, the grant provided to them shall amount to at least half of that granted to other parties.
(2) As regards the provision of grants in connection with particular elections, for the duration of the election campaign Para. (1) applies only to parties which have submitted election proposals.
(3) The provision of grants referred to in Para. 1 may depend on certain objective conditions which all parties have to fulfil.