By means of a special decision the Parliament shall establish a Committee for monitoring the implementation of the Law on the Election of Councillors and MPs in the part related to media (hereinafter referred to as Committee).
The Committee shall have 10 (ten) members and shall be composed on parity basis out of MPs of the parliamentary majority and parliamentary opposition. Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the Committee shall be appointed from out of the members of the Committee.
The Committee shall be established not later than 10 (ten) days from the day of calling of the elections for MPs.
Proposal for appointment of the Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson and members of the Committee shall be submitted to the Parliament by the working body of the Parliament in charge of election and appointments.
The Committee shall be responsible for monitoring and supervising the implementation of the provisions of this Law related to the obligations of the media in pre-election campaign, including but not limited to:
1) considering appeals in respect of media activities, and taking positions and passing conclusions in respect of these;
2) warning media to act in accordance with this Law and eliminate potential irregularities;
3) publishing its stances and conclusions in public;
4) informing the Agency for Electronic Media and competent media authorities about the violation of the provisions of this Law by media, in order to undertake measures under their scope of competences against the media acting contrary to the Law.
The Committee shall decide by majority vote of its members.
The Committee shall supervise media activities from the day it is established until the day final results are published.
Media shall be obliged to publish immediately the report and conclusions of the Committee, which state that certain media acted contrary to this Law.
The Rules of Procedure of the Parliament of Montenegro shall be accordingly applied to issues of work of the Committee not regulated by this Article.
