The Central Election Commission (CEC) has approved the calendar plan of organizational measures for the preparation and conduct of elections of people's deputies of Ukraine, UNIAN reports. \n \nAt the commission meeting chaired by CEC Chairman Yaroslav Davydovych, "a document long awaited by subjects of the electoral process was considered, so that they could check their future steps against it – the draft Calendar Plan of the main organizational measures for the preparation and conduct of elections of people's deputies of Ukraine on March 26, 2006," the CEC press service reports. \n \nThe main purpose of this document is the uniform application of legislation on elections of people's deputies of Ukraine by voters, district and precinct election commissions and their members, executive authorities and local self-government bodies, officials and staff of these bodies, enterprises, institutions, organizations and their officials, mass media, their owners, officials and creative workers, candidates for deputies, political parties (election blocs of political parties), their representatives and authorized persons, official observers, other associations of citizens, the CEC emphasized. \n \nAfter detailed discussion, in accordance with paragraph 2 of part two of Article 30 of the Law of Ukraine "On Elections of People's Deputies of Ukraine," guided by Articles 12, 13, paragraphs 1, 2, 3 of Article 19 of the Law of Ukraine "On the Central Election Commission," the Commission adopted a protocol decision approving the said Calendar Plan. \n \nThe Commission returned to consideration of the issue of the weighted average cost indicator of a unit of print space and a unit of airtime in mass media for conducting pre-election campaigning during the elections of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, local councils and village, settlement, city heads on March 26, 2006. On October 27, at its meeting, the CEC had already considered it, but at that time the draft Regulation on the weighted average cost indicator of a unit of print space and a unit of airtime in mass media for conducting pre-election campaigning during the said elections was approved only preliminarily, since the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting and the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine still had to express their opinion on this matter. \n \nHaving fully agreed the document with these institutions, today the CEC by its resolution approved the Regulation on the weighted average cost indicator of a unit of print space and a unit of airtime in mass media for conducting pre-election campaigning during the elections of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the ARC, local councils and village, settlement, city heads on March 26, 2006, determined by the Central Election Commission together with the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting and the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine. \n \nIn addition, having considered the submission of the political council of the People's Movement of Ukraine, the CEC made certain changes to Appendix 1 to CEC resolution No. 124 of September 30, 2005 "On the creation of central and regional control groups to ensure public control over the process of compiling and the reliability of general voter lists for the preparation and conduct of elections of people's deputies of Ukraine on March 26, 2006": I.H. Shevchenko, who represented the NRU, was excluded from the central control group, and O.B. Kovalchuk, whose candidacy was also submitted by the NRU, was included in this group. \n \nChanges were also made to CEC resolution No. 120 of September 6, 2005, concerning the staffing schedule of the Commission.