(1) Complaints submitted regarding the participation of media content providers, the press and cinemas – violations of the provisions of this Act – shall be adjudged by the National Election Commission. Complaints regarding regional and local press products and press products distributed via on-demand media services or distributed in an area smaller than the whole country shall be adjudged: in case of elections of members of Parliament and of members of the European Parliament by the parliamentary single-member constituency election commission at the seat or address of the media content provider; in the case of the election of Members of the European Parliament, elections of municipality representatives and mayors and elections of national minority self-government representatives, by the territorial election commission at the seat or address of the media content provider.

(2) In the case of a violation of the law committed on the true and faithful electronic copy of a printed press product, the deadline for submitting the complaint expires on the third day after the day on which the printed press product was published.

(3) The complainant shall identify, or, if possible, attach the programme or media content that proves the violation of the law. The indicated programme – if it is necessary and it was not attached by the complainant – shall be acquired ex officio by the competent election commission as defined in (1).

(4) Complaints regarding internet media contents violating the law shall be submitted within three days from the date on which the media content was published. No complaint may be refused on the grounds that it was submitted late if it was submitted within three days from the day on which the violation of the law had been perceived and the content provider is unable to provide a proof – following the election commission’s call for it – that would stand beyond doubt as to the date of publication of the media content.

(5) No complaint may be examined on its merits if the internet media content that the complaint refers to is a re-publication of a media content which has been published in an audiovisual or radio media service or in a printed press product and the complaint was submitted after three days from the date on which the original media content had been published.