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Recommendation 2075 (2015)
Media responsibility and ethics in a changing media environment
1. The Parliamentary Assembly refers
to its Resolution 2066
(2015) on media responsibility and ethics in a changing
media environment as well as to the following texts of the Committee
of Ministers: Resolution (74) 26 on the right of reply – Position
of the individual in relation to the press, and Recommendations
Rec(2004)16 to member States on the right of reply in the new media
environment and No. R (97) 21 on the media and the promotion of
a culture of tolerance.
2. The Assembly welcomes the fact that media freedom is a priority
for the Council of Europe and recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
2.1. call on member States to introduce,
where this has not yet been done, a right of reply into their domestic
laws and to ensure that such a right of reply granted by the media
is legally recognised by the courts in case of judicial proceedings
against those media for the same facts;
2.2. produce guidelines for governments in order to support
media self-regulation nationally while respecting media freedom
in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights (ETS
No. 5);
2.3. strengthen programmes aimed at raising self-regulatory
ethical standards among journalists and the media, including support
for professional training of journalists and support for public
service broadcasters to set ethical standards such as the Editorial
Principles and Guidelines by the European Broadcasting Union;
2.4. provide for more practical activities by the Council of
Europe, such as the No Hate Speech Movement by the Council of Europe’s
youth sector and the Media in Europe for Diversity Inclusiveness (MEDIANE)
and Media Against Racism in Sport (MARS) programmes of the European
Federation of Journalists and the Council of Europe.