182.1. The Institute, and through it the Local Public Bodies and the other electoral authorities, will use the airtime on radio and television corresponding to them in accordance with the regulations approved by the General Council and to the following:

a) The Institute will determine on a quarterly basis, considering the calendars of the local electoral processes, the allocation of the time in radio and television earmarked for its own purposes and those of other electoral authorities. The prerogatives for the political parties will under no circumstances be included as part of the previous;

b) For the effects of this article, the Institute will have at its disposal messages of twenty and thirty seconds;

c) The transmission hours will be between six in the morning and midnight;

d) The time that the Institute has at its disposal during the electoral campaigns on prime time radio and television, will preferably be used to transmit the messages of the political parties;

e) The Institute, through the competent administrative instance, will prepare the transmission standards of its own messages. The Local Public Bodies and other electoral authorities will propose to the Institute the standards which correspond to the times it allocates to them according to the provisions of this chapter;

f) The electoral authorities of the states will deliver to the Institute the material with the messages that correspond to them in radio and television, for the dissemination of their activities during the local electoral processes.