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5.3 ANNEX – RELEVANT ACTIVITIES AND DOCUMENTS OF COUNCIL OF EUROPE<br />

The main challenges addressed by the Council of Europe are:<br />

defending and maintaining its fundamental principles in new environments<br />

promoting freedom of expression in the complex context of the new communications services<br />

In this respect, the Council established the Steering Committee on <strong>Media</strong> and New Communication<br />

Services (CDMC).<br />

At the level of the Council of Europe, we have more particularly into account legal instruments,<br />

including the following:<br />

The most important instrument promoted by the Council of Europe is the European Convention on<br />

Transfrontier Television (ECTT), adopted in 1989 (entered into force in 1993) and amended in 2002.<br />

The ECTT provides minimum common rules, in fields such as freedom of expression, programming,<br />

advertising, sponsorship and the protection of certain individual rights. It entrusts the transmitting<br />

States with the task of ensuring that television programme services transmitted comply with its<br />

provisions. In return, freedom of reception of programme services is guaranteed as well as the<br />

retransmission of the programme services which comply with the minimum rules of the Convention.<br />

This document is currently under revision, the main goal being to adapt it to the new realities of the<br />

industry.<br />

Council of Europe standards in the field of media can also be identified in Recommendations of the<br />

Parliamentary Assembly as well as from Declarations of the Committee of Ministers.<br />

The <strong>Study</strong> Team believes that from the CoE standards, the following are equally of relevance to the<br />

<strong>Study</strong>:<br />

In its Declaration on the freedom of expression and information of April 29 th 1982, the Council<br />

reaffirmed that media pluralism and diversity of media content are essential for the functioning of a<br />

democratic society and are the corollaries of the fundamental right to freedom of expression and<br />

information as guaranteed by Article 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and<br />

Fundamental Freedoms.<br />

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