1. For the purposed of this Chapter, the following are understood as campaign expenditure:

a) Propaganda expenses: Includes the ones incurred for fences, banners, leaflets, placards, sound systems, political events held in rented places, utilitarian propaganda and other similar;

b) Operative expenses of the campaign: Includes the wages and salaries of the temporary personnel, the occasional rental of movable assets and real estate, transportation expenses of material and personnel, travel allowances and other similar;

c) Propaganda expenses in newspapers, magazines and other printed media: Includes those made in any of these media, such as paid insertions, advertisements and similar, intended to obtain votes. In any case, both the contracting party and candidate and the printed media should clearly specify that it is paid propaganda or insertion;

d) Production expenses of the messages for radio and television: Includes those made for the payment of professional services; the use of technical equipment, locations or recording and production studios, as well as the others related to the same objective;

e) The expenses aimed to present the registered candidatures of the party and to promote them to the citizens;

f) The expenses aimed to promote the explanation, development and discussion of the programs and actions of the registered candidates, and of the electoral platform, before the citizens;

g) Any expense that spreads the image, name or government platform of any candidate or of a political party in the period between the end of the pre-campaign and until the beginning of the electoral campaign, and

h) The expenses determined by the General Council, at the proposal of the Auditing Commission and before the beginning of the electoral campaign.

2 . The expenses incurred by the political parties for their ordinary operation, for the fulfillment of their statutory obligations and for the maintenance of their directive bodies and their organizations, are not considered as campaign expenditure.

3. All the goods and services used for the campaign should directly aim to obtaining votes in the federal or local elections; [with the exception of expenditure related to electoral structures, which will be considered as ordinary operative expenditure.]