Amendment No. 3 | Doc. 14228 | 24 January 2017

Online media and journalism: challenges and accountability

Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Origin - 2017 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 5, insert the following paragraph:

"The Assembly stresses the importance of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and especially of its Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Delfi AS v. Estonia (Application no. 64569/09). This landmark decision has clarified the duties and responsibilities of internet news portals when they provide, on a commercial basis, a platform for user-generated comments on previously published content."