A political party or independent candidate shall enclose government stamps with its application for certification in the amount determined by the Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina for every election. The Certification fee shall be refunded if a political party or independent candidate wins at least one mandate in the elections or if the application is rejected. For the purposes of this article a mandate won by a coalition or independent candidates list shall be deemed to have been won by each individual political party in the coalition or each individual independent candidate on the independent candidates list, regardless of which party in the coalition or which independent candidate on the list of independent candidates actually received the mandate.
