Election Campaign Costs

Election campaign costs are costs of all activities deemed to be the election campaign in line with Article 2, fifth indent of this Law.

For the purpose of implementing activities within the election campaign, the political entities will be prohibited from using the budget funds of the Republic of Serbia, the budget of the autonomous province and the budget of the local self-government units, that the candidates at elections and election lists, as well as the public officials, state officials, and officials of the autonomous province and the local self-government unit or the directly elected persons, have at disposal for the need of discharging their official duties.

The political entities shall also be prohibited, in the course of an election campaign, except for the public services and goods allocated in line with Article 6, paragraph 2 of the law, to use other public resources, including the official premises, vehicles, websites and inventory of the state, provincial and local authorities, public institutions and public enterprises, except for the public officials using public resources for the purpose of personal safety protection, in case such use of the public resources has been defined by the regulations from such area or by virtue of the decision of the services ensuring safety of officials.

A political entity may, for the election campaign, use the premises and services of authorities and organizations from Article 6, paragraph 1 of this Law, if such premises and services are available, under equal conditions to all political entities, based on the publicly available decision of such authorities and organizations and under the condition that they can ensure the use of the premises and services during the election campaign, to each and every political entity having expressed timely interest thereof.

Funds raised from public and private sources for financing election campaign costs may be used only for activities specified in paragraph 1 of this Article.

Rules and regulations governing action of media during election campaigns shall apply to each time slot purchase in the media.