34. Are there provisions for free or subsidized access to media for candidates?

Article 72 of theLaw on Parliamentary elections

Article 57 of the Local Elections Law

Article 38 of the Presidential elections Law

Parliamentary Elections: Air time for conducting election campaigning shall be provided at the expense and within the limits of the funds of the State Budget of Ukraine allocated for preparation and conduct of the election, by the state-owned and municipal television and radio broadcasting entities between 19:00 and 22:00. 4. Television and radio broadcasting entities shall provide each party that is an electoral subject with air time for election campaigning at the expense and within the limits of the funds of the State Budget of Ukraine allocated for the preparation and holding of the election, totaling no less than 60 minutes on a nationwide television channel and 60 minutes on a nationwide radio channel, and also 20 minutes for each one on the regional television channels and 20 minutes for each one on the regional radio channels in each of the regions. MP candidates registered in a single-member district shall each be provided with 20 minutes on the respective regional television channels and 20 minutes on the regional radio channels. The above time shall be provided to a party on each of the aforementioned channels in two equal parts of the total allocated time. (Article 72 of theLaw on Parliamentary elections)

Local Elections Law - Broadcasting time allocated for the political advertising on radio and television may not exceed 20 per cent of the actual broadcasting time of the TV and radio company of any form of ownership within an astronomic day. (Article 57 of the Local Elections Law)

Presidential elections Law -  The Central Election Commission and the district election commissions shall allocate expenses for the preparation and conduct of the elections of the President of Ukraine, including those for prin­ting information posters of the candidates to the post of President of Ukraine, for publishing pre-elec­tion programs of the candidates in mass media, and for buying broadcasting time on radio and television, according to budget schemes, approved by the Central Election Commission, of ex­pen­ditures, from the funds for the preparation and conduct of the elections envisaged in the State Budget of Ukraine.

Financing the election commissions of the foreign polling stations shall be carried out by the Central Election Commission via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. (Article 38 of the Presidential elections Law)