(a)

Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2025/2445;

(b)

Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 6 July 2026 (3) (‘Bureau Decision of 6 July 2026’);

(c)

Financial Regulation;

(d)

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2015/2401 (4);

(e)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2246 (5);

(f)

European Parliament’s Rules of Procedure (6).

(a)

the amount requested by the party in the funding application, which shall not exceed 95 % of total reimbursable expenditure presented in the estimated budget, and

(b)

the amount determined in accordance with Article 24 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2025/2445.

(a)

are submitted in writing using the funding application form as annexed to this call and include all supporting documents required therein;

(b)

contain the commitment, expressed in writing by signing the declaration on general terms and conditions as well as exclusion criteria included in the funding application file mentioned under paragraph 13;

(c)

contain a letter of legal representative(s) certifying the authorisation to undertake legal obligations on behalf of the applicant;

(d)

are sent to the President of the European Parliament by 30 September 2026 , as electronic copy or as electronic original (containing qualified electronic signature (7)) to the following functional mailbox: fin.part.fond.pol@europarl.europa.eu by using the CoFile platform (8). Supporting documents are to be submitted in editable format, tables preferably in Excel.

(a)

in one of the situations of exclusion or rejection referred to in Article 138(1) or 143(1) of the Financial Regulation;

(b)

registered as excluded in the database referred to in Article 144 of the Financial Regulation;

(c)

subject of any of the sanctions provided for in Article 32(1)(a) points (vii), (viii) and (ix) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2025/2445.

(a)

must be registered with the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (10) (the ‘Authority’) in accordance with Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2025/2445;

(b)

must be represented in the European Parliament by at least one Member of the European Parliament;

(c)

must comply with the obligations listed in Article 28 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2025/2445, i.e. it must have submitted the annual financial statements (11), external audit report and the list of donors and contributors, as specified therein.

(a)

10 % will be distributed in equal shares among the beneficiary European political parties;

(b)

90 % will be distributed among the beneficiary European political parties in proportion to their share of elected members of the European Parliament; pursuant to Article 22(3) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2025/2445, a Member of the European Parliament shall be considered as a member of only one European political party, which shall, where relevant, be the one to which his or her national or regional political party is affiliated on the final date for the submission of funding applications.

(a)

total personnel costs should be reasonably balanced compared to the operational costs;

(b)

the staffing plan is adapted to the organizational and operational needs;

(c)

the decision on recruitment and remuneration is taken by the appropriate governing bodies, according to the beneficiary’s statutes and specific internal rules, based on best practice and general principles like transparency, equal treatment, absence of conflict of interest;

(d)

the remuneration rates and other fringe benefits (if any) take into account the average rates on the relevant employment market.