«Ytringsfrihed bør finde Sted»

NOU 1999: 27
Kapittel 12 «Ytringsfrihed bør finde Sted» 353
1. Chairman Mr. Francis Sejersted, Professor of History, University of Oslo,
2. Vice-chair Ms. Vigdis Moe Skarstein, University Director, Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Trondheim
3. Mr. Jon Bing, Professor of Law, University of Oslo,
4. Mr. Thor Bjarne Bore, Editor-in-Chief of Stavanger Aftenblad,
5. Ms. Tove Bull, Rector of the University of Tromsø, Professor of Nordic
Languages,
6. Ms. Diis Irene Bøhn, Journalist, former President of the Norwegian Union
of Journalists, Oslo,
7. Ms. Kristin Høgdahl, Project Director, Norwegian Institute of Human
Rights, Oslo,
8. Ms. Nazneen Khan, Journalist, Oslo,
9. Mr. Ole Henrik Magga, Professor of Sámi Language, University of
Tromsø, former President of the Sámi Parliament,
10. Mr. Helge Rønning, Professor of Media and Communication, University of
Oslo,
11. Mr. Gunnar Skirbekk, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bergen,
12. Mr. Eivind Smith, Professor of Public Law, University of Oslo,
13. Mr. Hans Stenberg-Nilsen, Attorney-at-law, Oslo,
14. Ms. Ellen Stensrud, Information Director, the Norwegian Confederation
of Trade Unions,
15. Mr. Kjeld Vibe, Ambassador, Oslo,
16. Ms. Maria Fuglevaag Warsinski, Film director, Oslo.
Mr. Ørnulf Røhnebæk has been the legal secretary of the Commission
throughout its period of office, while Ms. Mona Aarhus has been the second
legal secretary as of 30 March 1998.
The Commission started its work in January 1997 and the present report
was submitted in September 1999. During its approximately two and a half
years of work, the Commission met for 32 days. Seven of the meetings (three
in Oslo and the others in Tromsø, Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim) were
arranged as open hearings on different subjects relating to free speech, inter
alia journalism, defamation, minorities and their opportunities to be heard, privacy,
the responsibility of the distributor, national security and sedition, and
employees? participation in public debate. More than 40 people contributed
with prepared speeches. In addition the Commission met with various kinds
of experts in closed sessions, inter alia Justice Antonin Scalia of the US
Supreme Court.
The Commission has initiated and financed four external studies and two
of them (in Norwegian) are printed in an annex to our report, namely Hans
Fredrik Dahl and Henrik G. Bastiansen: Ytringsfrihetens historie i Norge i det
20. århundre (The history of freedom of expression in Norway in the 20 th century)
and Kyrre Eggen: Norges internasjonale forpliktelser på ytringsfrihetens
område (The international obligations of Norway in the field of freedom of
expression).