Apart from a thorough legal framework, including effective prohibitions, remedies and sanctions, also non-legal mechanisms are recommended. They shall raise awareness and increase political efforts aimed at preventing the misuse of state positions and public resources during electoral processes’’. According to the Joint Guidelines on administrative resources, the practices found in Serbia concerning the use of public positions to get an unfair advantage, for example, by making major announcements during the electoral campaign, should be prohibited (the current rules prohibit such behaviour only in the last ten days before elections and only from such events being covered by the broadcast media).