Amendment No. 9 | Doc. 14450 Part 1 | 24 January 2018

The progress of the Assembly's monitoring procedure (January-December 2017) and the periodic review of the honouring of obligations by Estonia, Greece, Hungary and Ireland

Signatories: Mr Zsolt CSENGER-ZALÁN, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Ms Mónika BARTOS, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Ms Elvira KOVÁCS, Serbia, EPP/CD ; Mr Zsolt NÉMETH, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Attila TILKI, Hungary, EPP/CD

Origin - 2018 - First part-session

In the draft resolution paragraph 10.3.3, delete the following words:

"and the strong political intervention in the Hungarian media market".

Explanatory note

In its opinion on Hungarian media legislation, the Venice Commission acknowledges the efforts of the Hungarian government to improve on the original text of the two Acts, in line with comments from various observers including the Council of Europe, and notes positively the willingness of the Hungarian authorities to continue in dialogue.