Peculiarities of Filing Complaints against Actions or Inactivity of Mass Media, Their Owners, Officials and Officers
1. A candidate to the post of President of Ukraine or a party (bloc) - a subject of the election process shall have the right to file a complaint to court or to a respective election commission against the actions or inactivity of mass media, their owners, officials and officers, which violate the procedure established by law for the activities of mass media during the election process, including the pre-election campaign, in particular, with respect to the requirement to refute of untrue information published by them about a candidate or a party (bloc) that nominated a candidate.
2. The Central Election Commission or territorial election commission shall have the right at its own initiative to file a complaint to court against the actions or inactivity , specified in part one of this article, of mass media, their owners, officials and officers.
3. A complaint against actions or inactivity of mass media, their owners, officials and officers shall be submitted to a local court at the location of the mass media, the actions or inactivity of which are appealed.
4. A complaint about violations of the restrictions established by law on the pre-election campaign committed by all-national mass media shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, and , if committed by local or regional mass media - to the respective territorial election commission. The election commission that received such complaint shall, by its decision, promptly send it to the respective law enforcement bodies for verification and actions on it according to law.
5. Considering a complaint against the actions or inactivity of mass media entities, their owners, officials and officers shall not exclude bringing the aforementioned entity or its individual owners, officials and officers to civil, administrative or criminal responsibility in accordance with the procedure envisaged by law.
