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1. Political parties and movements wishing to benefit from the reimbursement of electoral expenses and of contributions as co-funding the political activity shall submit an application, under the sanction of incapacity, to the President of the Chamber of Deputies or to the President of Republic's Senate, according to their concerned competencies, until the 30th day following the date of the elections for the renewal of Republic's Senate, Chamber of Deputies, European Parliament, Regional Councils or the Councils of autonomous provinces Trento and Bolzano.
2. The application shall be considered submitted at the date of:
a) presentation, if submitted personally;
b) at the date resulting from the record equipments if submitted electronically;
c) at the date resulting from the stamp of the postal offices if submitted by registered mail or other registered correspondence.
3. The application shall be presented by the legal representative or by the political party or political movement's treasurer that submitted the list of election symbols.
The positions held according to the above title shall be proven by a notary deed received by a notary public, attached to the application. The authenticated copy of the minute on the submission of the list of election symbols issued by the relevant administration shall also be attached to the application. The signature on the application shall be authenticated by a notary public or by another competent public officer. If, according to the law, are presented lists of candidates that do not represent the direct expression of political parties and movements, the application shall be submitted according to the methods provided at titles I-IV of this line, by at least one of the persons delegated for the list, authorized to receive the communications and to present recourses on behalf of and in its name.
4. If several political parties or movements have jointly submitted the list of election symbols and have participated as associates to an electoral competition by presenting a common list of candidates, the application shall be presented according to the method provided at line 3, on behalf of and in the name of each of them, by the concerned legal representatives or treasurers. Individual parties and political movements that, after jointly submitting the list of election symbols, did not file a specific application according to the provisions of line 1 of this article shall loose the right to their own reimbursement share provided at article 4.
5. Line 2 of article 1 of the law no. 157 of June 3rd 1999 shall be replaced with:
"By decision of the Management Office of the Chamber of Deputies, enacted by Decree of the President of the same Chamber, reimbursements of electoral expenses regarding the renewal of the Chamber of Deputies, Italian members of the European Parliament, Regional Councils and Councils of autonomous provinces Trento and Bolzano as well as the reimbursement of referendum expenses borne by the committees organizing the referendums shall be granted under the provisions of line 4. By decision of the Management Board of Republic's Senate, enforceable by means of the Decree of Senate's President, reimbursements for electoral expenses for the renewal of Republic's Senate shall be granted. The decisions of the Management Office of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Management Board of Republic's Senate granting the reimbursements shall be adopted by applying the criteria established at articles 9 and 16 of the law no. 515 of December 10th 1993, with the further amendments and at article 6 of the law no. 43 of February 23rd 1995, based on the funds transferred by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.