1. Election committees shall have the right to election campaigning in radio and television programmes pursuant to the provisions of this Act, in the form of election broadcasts and election announcements.
2. An election broadcast is a part of a radio or television programme, not provided by the broadcaster, that is broadcast free of charge and constituting a separate entity in content or form, which enables an election committee to exercise the right to broadcasting time referred to in Article 181 for conducting their election campaign.
3. The act of broadcasting an election programme shall be realised by a public broadcaster by registration embracing the emission of an election programme prepared by a given election committee – or by free access to a studio operated by professional personnel that shall record an election programme of an election committee and ensure its broadcast.
4. An election announcement constitutes an advertisement in the meaning of Article 4, paragraph 6 of the Act of 29 December 1992 on radio and television (Journal of laws of 1993, No, 7, item 34; of 1995, No. 66 item 335 and No. 142, item 701; of 1996, No. 106, item 496; of 1997, No. 88, item 554 and No. 121, item 770; of 1999, No. 90, item 999; of 2000, No. 29, item 356 and 358, and No. 73, item 852, and of 2001, No. 422, item 469), prepared and delivered by an election committee to be emitted as an element of its election campaigning.
