Amendment No. 12 | Doc. 13806 | 23 June 2015
Situation in Hungary following the adoption of Assembly Resolution 1941 (2013)
Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media
In the draft resolution, paragraph 2.5, replace the second and third sentences with the following sentences:
"For its part, the Assembly urged the Hungarian Parliament in its Resolution 2035 (2015) to pursue further reforms of its legislation in order to improve the independence of the media regulatory authorities, the State news agency and the public service broadcasters, to increase transparency and pluralism in the private media, as well as to combat racist expressions against ethnic minorities. In accordance with Opinion 798/2015 of the Venice Commission on Hungarian media legislation, the Assembly calls on Hungary to implement those recommendations."