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(1) Where a public authority provides facilities or other public services for use by one party, equal treatment must be accorded to all parties. The scale on which such facilities and services are provided may be graduated to conform with the importance of the parties to the minimum extent needed for the achievement of their aims. The importance of a party shall be judged in particular from the results of previous parliamentary elections. The scale on which such facilities and services are accorded to a party that is represented in the Bundestag by a parliamentary group must be at least half that granted to any other party.
(2) With regard to the accordance of public services in connection with an election, Paragraph 1 shall apply for the duration of the election campaign only to parties which have submitted nominations.
(3) The public services defined in Paragraph 1 may be made dependent on certain preconditions which all parties have to fulfill.
(4) Section IV shall remain unaffected.