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Article 76
 

(1) Paid political advertising must be properly and visibly indicated as "paid political advertising" and clearly separated from other media contents.


(2) The client ordering the advertising must be clearly indicated in all the forms of paid political advertising.


(3) Participation of minors in paid political advertising is prohibited.


(4) Broadcasters cannot broadcast paid political advertising during news, special informative programmes, educational and children programmes and during live broadcast from religious, sport, cultural, entertainment and other events.


(5) The public broadcasting service shall not broadcast paid political advertising.


(6) For the purpose of providing objective information to the voters about the course of the election campaign and for the purpose of protecting the profession of journalism from any political influence during the electoral presentation in the media, the special informative programs must not be used as a form of paid political advertising.


(7) The campaigns of the State Election Commission aimed to educate the voters about exercising their right to vote and for fair and democratic elections shall not be considered as paid political advertising. They should be separated from the rest of the program and the orderer must be clearly indicated.


(8) The broadcasters may not broadcast free political presentation on its programmes as of the day of calling elections until their completion.