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§1. For the purposes of the present Law, election propaganda expenses include the following: all expenditures and financial commitments related to verbal, written, audio and visual messages as are intended to favourably influence the ¬results of a political party and its candidates and which are transmitted in the six months preceding elections organized pursuant to section 105 of the Election Code or from the date of publication in Moniteur Belge of the Royal Decree of dissolution pursuant to Section 106 of the same Code.
§ 2. The following are not considered as election propaganda expenses:
1. provision of non-remunerated personal services, including the use of private vehicles;
2. publication of feature articles in a daily or ¬periodical publication, where said publication¬ is undertaken in the same manner and under the same rules as when outside the election period and where there is no payment, compensation or promise of payment or compensation, except where the daily or periodical publication has been created for the purpose of or in view of the elections and provided that the distribution and frequency of the publication are the same as outside the election period;
3. radio or television broadcasts ¬of programmes, including opinions or commentary, provided that said broadcasts are performed in the same manner and in accordance with the same rules as outside election periods, without payment, compensation or promise of payment or compensation;
4. a radio or television party political broadcast or series thereof¬, provided that the representatives of political parties referred to in Article 1 may take part therein;
5. radio or television party political broadcasts, provided that their number and duration are determined according to the number of representatives of the political parties in the legislative assemblies.
§ 3. Expenditures and financial commitments related¬ to relevant goods, supplies and services, as covered by paragraph 1, are to be reported at market prices.