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1. Political parties and coalitions that are entitled to state funding according to article 2, paragraph 1 receive yearly financial support from the State for establishing and operating research and study centres, and to organise training programmes for their officials. The financial support is an amount equal to 0.1‰ (zero point one per thousand) of the regular income of the State Budget and distributed between eligible parties, according to the provisions of article 3 paragraph 1.
2. The necessary credits are included in the budget of the Ministry of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation.
3. The parties and coalitions that are entitled to the above support and the respective amounts are determined by decision of the Minister of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation, as stipulated at article 3, paragraph 1.
4. In the audit carried out according to article 21, it is examined whether the amount granted to parties and coalitions were used for the activities of paragraph 1. If this is not the case, the party or coalition that received the amount must return it.