(1) The political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities which participate in the elections, as well as the independent candidates shall be bound to ask the management of the public broadcasting services for the air time up to the date when the candidatures shall become final. The requests following this time limit shall not be taken into consideration.

(2) The access of political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances andorganisations of citizens belonging to national minorities which participate in the elections, as well as of independent candidates to the public broadcasting services shall be free of charge. The private broadcasting stations shall charge the same tariff per broadcast and per time unit for all the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities which participate in the elections, and the air time must be comparable to the air time granted by public stations. The failure to observe the provisions of this paragraph by the private broadcasting stations shall incur the penalisation thereof.

The sanctions shall be settled by decisions of the National Audiovisual Council.

(3) The introduction of electoral advertising in broadcasts other than the electoral ones shall be forbidden.

(4) Within 48 hours of the finalisation of the candidatures, the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company and the Romanian Television Broadcasting Company shall set, on the basis of the notification from the Central Electoral Bureau, the schedule for the electoral campaign and the distribution of the air time for the access of political parties, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances, electoral alliances and of independent candidates to the public broadcasting services, taking into account the following quota of the allotted air time:

a) 4/5 of the air time shall be equally distributed to the political parties, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities which have members in the European Parliament, and which participate in the elections, as well as to the political or electoral alliances thereof;

b) 1/5 of the air time shall be equally distributed to the political parties,political alliances, electoral alliances, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities which have no member in the European Parliament which participate in the elections, as well as to the independent candidates.