Amendment No. 6 | Doc. 14505 | 24 April 2018
The status of journalists in Europe
Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In the draft resolution, replace paragraph 6.2 with the following paragraph:
"X.X review their domestic legislation on the status of journalists with a view to:
X.X.1 identifying any areas to be updated, taking recent technological and economic developments into account;
X.X.2 ensuring that such legislation protects journalists from arbitrary dismissal or reprisals and from precarious working conditions that may expose them to undue pressures obliging them to depart from accepted journalistic ethics and standards;
X.X.3 providing a legal definition of journalists wide enough to encompass all forms of contemporary journalistic work, including internet-based;
X.X.4 repealing disproportionately restrictive defamation laws and ensuring adequate procedural guarantees in libel proceedings brought against journalists;"