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Recommendation 2130 (2018)
Legal challenges related to hybrid war and human rights obligations
1. The Parliamentary Assembly refers
to its Resolution 2217
(2018) on legal challenges related to hybrid war and
human rights obligations.
2. The Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
2.1. conduct a study on hybrid war
threats, with a special focus on non-military means, in order to identify
key vulnerabilities and specific hybrid-related indicators, potentially
affecting national and European structures and networks, and to
identify legal gaps and develop appropriate legal standards, including
considering a new Council of Europe convention on this subject;
2.2. draft principles for regulatory reform of social media
platforms to ensure transparency in the conduct of free and fair
elections;
2.3. examine States’ practice in countering hybrid war threats,
with a view to identifying legal standards and good practice and
ensuring compliance of this practice with the safeguards provided
for by the European Convention on Human Rights (ETS No. 5);
2.4. step up co-operation with other international organisations
working in this field, in particular the European Union and the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO);
2.5. promote the ratification by member and non-member States
of the Convention on Cybercrime (ETS No. 185);
2.6. examine ways in which the Convention on Cybercrime is
implemented by its States parties and initiate a reflection on whether
it could be improved.