IRIS Themes Series 2011 Volume 2

Freedom of Expression and the Media:
Standard-setting by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly

This e-book provides an insight into the work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on freedom of expression and the Media. It summarises the many principles and normative requirements adopted by the Council since June 1995 in no less than 50 legal documents designed to guide the members of the Council of Europe. It also provides direct access to each of these documents.

More precisely, this publication contains:

1. A general description of the role and functioning of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in the context of standard setting relating to (but not necessarily based on) Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Media.

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2. Short abstracts, taken from our legal database IRIS Merlin, describing the main elements of all Declarations, Recommendations, Resolutions and other documents adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly. All abstracts all have links to the full text of the relevant official document. You may choose to view the articles either
   

• via a list of the Parliamentary Assembly’s document, where each entry is clickable and will direct you to the corresponding IRIS Merlin article
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• or compilation of all articles listed in a single printable document
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3. A compilation of the original texts of all Declarations, Recommendations, Resolutions etc. adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly (covering the period from 30 June 1995 to 25 January 2011).

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4. A list of all authors of IRIS Merlin articles

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This e-book is the brain-child of Tarlach McGonagle who also provided us with the introduction, the complete list of relevant texts and many of the corresponding IRIS Merlin articles as well as the authors list. I would like to thank him for his initiative and commitment. I am also grateful to the authors of the IRIS Merlin abstracts that build the core of this e-book publication. My thanks go finally to the colleagues of the Media, Information Society and Data Protection Division of the Council of Europe who let us use their compilation of the original texts adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly.

A sister publication focusing on the multiple principles and normative requirements adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe is available as IRIS Themes Series 2011 Volume 1 and accessible here.

Strasbourg, April 2011
Susanne Nikoltchev