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Article 18
 

- (1) The political parties, political or electoral alliances, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that take part in the elections, as well as the independent candidates shall be obliged to request the air time to the management of the public services of radio and television broadcasting up to the date when the candidatures become final.


(2) The access of political parties, political alliances, and electoral alliances that take part in the elections, as well as of independent candidates to the public radio and television services shall be free of charge. The private radio and television broadcasting stations shall charge the same tariff per broadcast and per time unity for all the political parties, political or electoral alliances, and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that take part in the elections, and the air time must be comparable to the air time distributed by public stations. The failure to observe the provisions of this paragraph by the private radio and television broadcasting stations shall incur the penalization thereof. The sanctions shall be settled by decisions of the National Broadcasting Standards Council.


(3) The introduction of electoral advertising in broadcasts other than the electoral ones shall be forbidden.


(4) Within 48 hours of the finalization of the candidatures, the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company and the Romanian Television Broadcasting Company shall set, on the basis of the notification from the Central Electoral Bureau, the calendar for the electoral campaign and the distribution of the air time for the access of political parties, political alliances, and electoral alliances that take part in the elections, as well as of independent candidates to the public radio and television services, taking into account the following quota of the allotted air time:


a) 4/5 of the air time shall be equally distributed to the political parties, 28 organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that have members in the European Parliament, and participating in the elections, as well as to the political alliances or electoral alliances thereof;


b) 1/5 of the air time shall be equally distributed to the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that have no members in the European Parliament who participate in the elections as well as to the independent candidates.*


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* Amended by G.E.O. no. 11/2009.