MAINTAINS THAT IT IS THEREFORE JUSTIFIABLE TO MAKE LARGER SUMS AVAILABLE TO THEM FOR THEIR INFORMATION CAMPAIGN . IT CONSIDERS THAT THE DIVISION OF THE APPROPRIATIONS INTO 69% FOR THE PRIOR FINANCING OF THE INFORMATION CAMPAIGN AND 31% FOR THE SUBSEQUENT FINANCING OF ALL THE POLITICAL GROUPINGS WHICH TOOK PART IN THE ELECTIONS CONSTITUTES A DECISION WHICH COMES WITHIN ITS POLITICAL DISCRETION . THE PARLIAMENT EMPHASIZED ONCE AGAIN AT THE HEARING THAT THE BUREAU AND THE ENLARGED BUREAU DECIDED ON AN ALLOCATION OF THE APPROPRIATIONS ACCORDING TO A FORMULA WHICH NATURALLY TOOK ACCOUNT OF THE SIZE OF THE CONTRIBUTION WHICH COULD BE MADE BY THE VARIOUS GROUPINGS IN PROMOTING THE CONCEPT OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION IN PUBLIC OPINION IN THE MEMBER STATES .
44 IT SHOULD FIRST OF ALL BE REPEATED THAT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IS ENTITLED TO ADOPT , BY VIRTUE OF ITS POWER TO DETERMINE ITS OWN INTERNAL ORGANIZATION GIVEN TO IT BY THE TREATIES , APPROPRIATE MEASURES TO ENSURE THE PROPER FUNCTIONING AND CONDUCT OF ITS PROCEEDINGS , AS WAS MADE CLEAR IN THE AFORESAID JUDGMENT OF 10 FEBRUARY 1983 . HOWEVER , IT MUST BE POINTED OUT THAT THE FINANCING SCHEME SET UP WOULD NOT COME WITHIN THAT POWER OF INTERNAL ORGANIZATION IF IT WERE TO BE FOUND THAT IT CANNOT BE DISTINGUISHED FROM A SCHEME PROVIDING FOR FLAT-RATE REIMBURSEMENT OF ELECTION CAMPAIGN EXPENSES .
45 IN ORDER TO CONSIDER WHETHER OR NOT THE FIRST THREE SUBMISSIONS ARE WELL-FOUNDED , IT IS THEREFORE NECESSARY TO DETERMINE FIRST OF ALL THE TRUE NATURE OF THE FINANCING SCHEME SET UP BY THE CONTESTED MEASURES .
46 IT SHOULD FIRST BE NOTED THAT THE CONTESTED MEASURES ARE , TO SAY THE LEAST , AMBIGUOUS . THE 1982 DECISION MERELY STATES THAT IT DEALS WITH THE ALLOCATION OF THE APPROPRIATIONS ENTERED UNDER ITEM 3708 , WHEREAS THE INTERNAL MEMORANDUM SUMMARIZING IT SPEAKS QUITE OPENLY OF FINANCING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN . WITH REGARD TO THE 1983 RULES , THEY DO NOT STATE WHETHER THE EXPENSES WHICH THEY PROPOSE TO REIMBURSE MUST HAVE BEEN INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION CONCERNING THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ITSELF OR INFORMATION CONCERNING THE POSITIONS WHICH THE POLITICAL GROUPINGS HAVE ADOPTED OR WHICH THEY INTEND TO ADOPT IN THE FUTURE .
47 IT IS TRUE THAT THE 1982 RULES ON THE UTILIZATION OF FUNDS PROVIDED THAT THE FUNDS ALLOCATED COULD ONLY BE USED FOR ACTIVITIES CONNECTED WITH THE INFORMATION CAMPAIGN FOR THE 1984 ELECTIONS . TO ENSURE THAT THAT CONDITION WAS MET , THEY SPECIFIED THE KIND OF EXPENDITURE WHICH COULD BE COVERED , DESIGNATED THE PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING THAT THE FUNDS WERE CORRECTLY UTILIZED , REQUIRED THE KEEPING OF SEPARATE ACCOUNTS ITEMIZING THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EXPENDITURE AND REQUIRED THE SUBMISSION OF REPORTS ON THE UTILIZATION OF THE FUNDS . IN THIS WAY , THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SOUGHT TO GUARANTEE THAT THE FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE TO THE POLITICAL GROUPS WOULD BE USED MAINLY TO COVER EXPENDITURE ON MEETINGS AND PUBLICATIONS ( BROCHURES , ADVERTISEMENTS