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Article 85
 

The Media Monitoring Board is composed of 7 members. Each of the CEC members appoints one Media Monitoring Board member from the list proposed by national non-for-profit media organisations, according to the following procedure:


a) no later than 4 months before the beginning of the electoral campaign, the CEC asks the District Court of Tirana a list of non-for-profit organizations that operatein the media sector, which have been registered at least 1 year before the date of the upcoming elections;


b) no later than 80 days before the beginning of the electoral campaign, the CEC sends to the non-for-profit organizations, which are identified according to letter "a" in this article, a request to propose members for the Media Monitoring Board;


c) within 30 days from the request of the CEC, each of these non-for-profit organizations proposes no fewer than three candidates for board members. The proposed candidates shall be journalists, analysts or media researchers, by profession or experience;


ç) no later than 45 days before the beginning of the electoral campaign, each member of the CEC chooses one name from the submitted proposals, according to letter "c" of this article, for the board member, and presents it to the CEC. The CEC approves the Media Monitoring Board in compliance with the deadline of point 1 of article 85. In case a vacancy rises in the board, the respective member of the CEC immediately proposes to the CEC for a new member of the board one of the names in the proposed list, according to letter "c" of this article.