Specific rules and procedures should be laid down for distributing the appropriations available each year from the general budget of the Union, taking into account, on the one hand, the number of beneficiaries and, on the other hand, the share of elected members in the European Parliament of each beneficiary European political party and, by extension, its respective affiliated European political foundation. Those rules should provide for strict transparency, accounting, auditing and financial control of European political parties and their affiliated European political foundations, as well as for the imposition of proportionate sanctions, including in the event of a breach by a European political party or a European political foundation of the values on which the Union is founded, set out in Article 2 TEU.
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