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1.By no later than the end of March of each year, the parties shall submit their accounts with reference to the preceding year to the Constitutional Court for examination.
2. The Constitutional Court shall rule on the legality and correctness of the accounts referred to in the preceding article, within a period of not more than six months following the date on which they were received, and may, for such purpose, require political parties to provide clarifications, in which case the period shall be suspended until such clarifications are received.
3.The judgment of the Constitutional Court shall be sent, together with the lists ¬referred to in paragraph 5 of article 10, for free publication in Diário da República (Official Journal).
4.For the purposes of this Article, the Constitutional Court may requisition or second qualified technicians from any ¬public service or employ, under contract, the services of audit companies or statutory auditors.
5.The contracts referred to in the preceding paragraph may be concluded by private award and their application will depend solely upon their approval by the Court in plenary session.
6.Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 4, the Constitutional Court may also come to be endowed with the technical and human resources necessary to carry out the functions which are incumbent upon it.