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Article 70
 

1. The postal exemptions will be subjected to the following rules:


a) The General Council will establish the amount intended to cover the cost for the postal exemptions of the national political parties in the Institute’s annual budget of expenses. In non-electoral years, the total amount will be equivalent to two percent of the public financing for ordinary activities; in electoral years it will be equivalent to four percent;


b) The postal exemptions will be allocated equally to the national political parties;


c) The Institute will inform the Mexican Postal Service of the budget which annually corresponds to each national political party through this prerogative and will every quarter cover the cost of the services given to each of the parties up to the corresponding limit. The Institute will not under any circumstances give the resources for this purpose directly to the parties. If there are still unused resources at the end of the corresponding f scal year, these will be returned to the Treasury of the Federation as budgetary savings;


d) Only the management committees of each national party can use the postal exemptions. The representative of the parties before the General Council will inform the Institute in a timely manner about the annual allocation between these committees of the prerogative corresponding to them;


e) The political parties will certify two authorized representatives for each of their committees to invoice the shipment of their ordinary correspondence, their propaganda and their regular publications before the Executive Directorate of Prerogatives and Political Parties and before the Local and District Executive Boards. The Executive Directorate will inform the Mexican Postal Service of the names of the certified representatives and will make the necessary arrangements for them to be accredited;


f) The national committees could, besides their correspondence, send the propaganda and their regular publications to the entire Republic; the state, district and municipal committees could send them to their national committee and within their respectively territorial areas;


g) The Mexican Postal Service will inform the Institute about the of f ces in which the political parties will deposit their correspondence, guaranteeing that they have the necessary elements for its handling. The representatives that have been authorized and registered by each committee before the Executive Directorate or the committees should invoice the shipments and sign the respective documents;


h) The return address will be clearly stated on the correspondence of each political party;


i) The Institute will sign the necessary agreements with the Mexican Postal Service for the purposes established in this article; the Mexican Postal Service will inform the Institute of the use that each political party makes of their prerogative, as well as about any irregularity in the use of the prerogative that it knows of, in the established terms and periods, and


j) The parties will, in a timely manner, inform the Executive Directorate of the replacement of their certified representatives, so that it can notify the Mexican Postal Service.