While reporting on large donations is regarded as useful for voters before an election, imposing weekly reporting requirements on election contestants may prove to be burdensome for some electoral or referendum contestants. Moreover, reporting on expenditure on a weekly basis in a nationwide campaign may be challenging, given the multiple regional centres where significant expenditures may occur in parallel and the realisation of framework contracts with continuous delivery. Such reporting risks being a pro forma exercise at best, without any benefit to the public. While there are no international standards related to financial reporting before elections and how often they should occur (and there is a variable practice in the participating States), the international good practice recommends that the “reporting requirements should be such that smaller parties can also fulfil them, and should not hinder such parties’ participation in political life”.