Outdoor political advertising

1. Outdoor political advertising shall be interpreted in this Code as outdoor advertising located outside the premises, on various designated means of display, including but not limited to screens, stands, billboards, poles and shop windows and various adapted means of display, including but not limited to building walls, windows, doors, roofs, temporary construction works, vehicles and hot air balloons. Outdoor political advertising shall also include the following:

1) advertising where the means of presentation are indoors (in shop windows, on the inside of windows and/or doors) but which are visible from outside;

2) information publicly displayed inside a building or vehicle (notice boards, signs, etc.).

2. Outdoor political advertising shall be disseminated in compliance with the rules on outdoor political advertising set out by the Central Electoral Commission. Municipal institutions may regulate the placement of outdoor political advertising in municipalities insofar as it meets the provisions of this Code and the rules on outdoor political advertising approved by the Central Electoral Commission and is in line with the principles of equality of campaigners and candidates.

3. It shall be prohibited to place and disseminate outdoor political advertising in the following locations:

1) on buildings housing state and municipal institutions and agencies;

2) in or on the exterior of public transport vehicles operated by state or municipal enterprises, with the exception of the cases where advertising areas or video broadcast equipment are owned or transferred for use to third persons who are beyond direct or indirect influence by state or municipal enterprises;

3) on motorways and in their sanitary protection areas, as well as in and alongside the streets if they are likely to obstruct traffic control devices and road signs, reduce visibility and cause dazzle or distraction to road users thereby endangering them; placing political advertising that imitates road signs shall also be prohibited;

4) on sculptures and monuments;

5) within 50 metres from the building housing a polling station;

6) without the written permission of the owner of the land, construction works or other structures on/in which the advertising is placed. Natural persons permitting the placement of outdoor political advertising on the existing designated means of display (stands, billboards, poles, shop windows, etc.) and legal persons may not give their consent to the placement or dissemination of outdoor political advertising free of charge, with the exception of notice boards where all notices are normally posted free of charge;

7) in protected areas and on immoveable cultural property as well as in their territories, with the exception of the areas designated by the authority responsible for the protection of the cultural properties and by the manager of the protected area.

4. The obligation to remove, within one month of the date of the proclamation of the final results of an election, all outdoor political advertising shall lie with the persons who disseminated the said advertising.

5. Persons who have violated the requirements of the procedure for placement and dissemination of outdoor political advertising shall be held under the procedure laid down by law.