7 If a licence referred to in subsection 1 cannot be granted to all applicants due to the scarcity of radio frequencies, it shall be granted to applicants whose operation best promotes the purposes laid down in section 1 of this Act. All information required by the licencing authority that is necessary to assess compliance with the licence requirements referred to in section 1 shall be given in a licence application. A decision on a licence granted by the Government shall be made within six weeks of the close of the application period. In special cases the Government may extend the six-week deadline by eight months at most if this is necessary to ensure that the application procedure is fair, reasonable, clear and transparent or to supplement the information in the applications or for other special reasons. Any extension to the deadline shall be announced publicly. Section 11 Issuing licences through an auction process The Government shall grant a licence referred to in section 8(2) to an enterprise, organisation or association that has made the highest valid bid for the frequency band or frequency pair in the auction, unless the licencing authority has especially weighty reasons to suspect that granting the licence to the applicant in question would apparently risk national security. Practical arrangements related to the auction are the responsibility of Ficora. The auction shall be unbiased, clear, open, non-discriminatory and technology and service neutral. Provisions regarding the number of frequency bands and frequency pairs to be granted, the maximum number of frequencies to be allocated to an enterprise and organisation, the auction model to be used and the starting bids for the frequencies to be auctioned shall be given by Government Decree. The auction may be conducted using an electronic auction system. The auction may include one or more rounds with ascending bids. All bids submitted in the auction are binding until the end of the auction. Ficora announces the auction concluded after a bidding round during which no new bids have been placed for any frequency pair or frequency band. The highest valid bid placed for each frequency pair or frequency band at the conclusion of the auction wins the auction. Section 12 Further regulations on the auction process Ficora may issue further regulations on the process and procedures applied in the auction. The regulations may relate to: 1) registration for auction and deadlines; 2) placing of bids; 3) raising of bids; 4) switching of bids between frequency pairs and frequency bands in a way that will not lower the value of placed bids due to the switching; 5) definitions of eligibility in each bidding round; 6) definitions of the highest standing bid; 7) discontinuance or cancellation of the auction due to force majeure or other technical reason; 8) other similar rules and technical arrangements of the auction.