SECTOR 3 3.3 The body, which regulates broadcasting services and licences, does so in the public interest and ensures fairness and a diversity of views broadly representing society at large. Judging by the content of the notices and reports that it publishes regularly (annual reports, quarterly notices) or the acts that it issues occasionally (formal notices/warnings, sanctions), the CNRA is perceived by the panel as a body mindful of the public interest and the equitable treatment of cases. Regarding the issuing of licences, this is the preserve of the Ministry of Communications, as far as the administrative procedures are concerned, and of the Agency for Telecommunications and Postal Regulation for the technical aspects (frequency, transmitter power, etc.). In any case, the panel feels that the framework for certain procedures is laid down in the specifications, but that the allocation of radio and television frequencies is done in a very ad hoc manner and according to the identity of the applicant. For example, in the case of Télévision Futurs medias (TFM) in 2010, the government, at first, publicly rejected the frequency application submitted by Mr Youssou Ndour before granting it to him without any transparent procedure being followed and, very obviously, after Mr Ndour had demonstrated greater consideration towards the government. In Senegal, the allocation of frequencies is not, in fact, subject to a call for tender. The panellists also raised the matter of the large number of frequencies already allocated and which have not been operational for years. Now these frequencies are public property and may not be sold or be the subject of any kind of speculation. Which is why one speaker wonders about the conditions pertaining to the transfer of a radio frequency allocated to the current President of the Republic well before his election. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 2.9 (2010:1.8; 2008:1.6; 2006:1.9) AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER SENEGAL 2013 105