When made available on public broadcasts, free airtime should be allocated to all parties on a reasonable basis and consistent with the principle of equality. In order to ensure equal opportunity, laws and further regulations, thus, should provide equal treatment with regard to time and space (as well as with regard to the timing and location of such space). Equality may be strict (e.g. Georgia) or proportional (e.g. Germany), depending on whether political parties are treated with or without regard to their present strength in parliament or among the electorate (CDL-AD(2002)23rev2-cor, Expl. Report para 18). In Georgia, however, political parties not qualified for state funding and independent candidates were only entitled to an unspecified amount of free airtime in public media, according to ODIHR.