public information which might have a detrimental effect on their physical, mental and moral development as well as to persons who have undertaken to broadcast radio and/or television programmes that are not yet broadcast by other broadcasters of radio and/or television programmes within the designated reception zone. 8. Broadcasting and re-broadcasting licences shall be issued by tender, except for the cases specified in paragraph 9 of this Article. The Commission shall publish invitations to tender for obtaining broadcasting and/or re-broadcasting licences not later than within 15 days of the receipt of the information specified in paragraph 2 of this Article from the Communications Regulatory Authority. The decisions of the Commission relating to the publication of invitations to tender shall be published in the supplement Informaciniai pranešimai to the official gazette Valstybės žinios. Refusal of the Commission to issue the broadcasting and/or re-broadcasting licence must be substantiated and communicated to the tenderer in writing. 9. The Commission shall issue broadcasting and re-broadcasting licences without tender in the following cases: 1) to research and higher education institutions or educational establishments – for broadcasting educational and cultural radio and/or television programmes by terrestrial radio and/or television stations with a power level ranging up to 20 W; 2) for broadcasting and/or re-broadcasting television programmes by cable television and radio networks; 3) for broadcasting and/or re-broadcasting television programmes by electronic communications networks the main purpose of which is not the broadcasting and/or re-broadcasting of radio and/or television programmes; 4) for broadcasting and/or re-broadcasting programmes by an artificial Earth satellite (satellites); 5) in other cases provided for in the plan for the assignment of radio frequencies for broadcasting and transmission of radio and television programmes. 10. On the recommendation of the Commission, the institution authorised by the Government in the field of provision of information to the public shall approve a description of the procedure for fixing the amount of the annual fee for broadcasting and re-broadcasting licences (hereinafter referred to as the “annual licence fee”) and shall fix the amount of the annual licence fee in compliance with the aforementioned description. The annual licence fees shall be transferred to the Foundation to support audio and visual projects. 11. The institution authorised by the Government in the field of provision of information to the public shall fix the annual licence fee having regard to: 1) the nature and content of radio and/or television programmes broadcast and/or re-broadcast by the licence holder; 2) the territory in which programmes will be broadcast and/or re-broadcast and decoders and other equipment distributed to enable access to the programmes (where the programmes are broadcast and/or rebroadcast using conditional access systems) and the number of residents in that territory; 3) the competitive environment;