Amendment No. 11 | Doc. 14229 | 23 January 2017

Attacks against journalists and media freedom in Europe

Signatories: Mr Georgios KYRITSIS, Greece, UEL ; Ms Anastasia CHRISTODOULOPOULOU, Greece, UEL ; Mr Andrej HUNKO, Germany, UEL ; Ms Lotta JOHNSSON FORNARVE, Sweden, UEL ; Mr Dimitrios KAMMENOS, Greece, NR ; Ms Ioanneta KAVVADIA, Greece, UEL ; Ms Filiz KERESTECİOĞLU DEMİR, Turkey, UEL ; Mr Ertuğrul KÜRKÇÜ, Turkey, UEL ; Mr George LOUCAIDES, Cyprus, UEL ; Mr Marco NICOLINI, San Marino, NR ; Mr Hişyar ÖZSOY, Turkey, UEL ; Ms Ulla SANDBÆK, Denmark, UEL ; Mr Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Denmark, UEL

Origin - 2017 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, in paragraph 12, replace the words "Mere profitability concerns of private broadcasting are not a sufficient ground to revoke long existing licenses, especially as the digitalisation of broadcasting reduces the need, and thus the possibility, for governments to reduce the number of broadcasting licenses for technical reasons" with the following words:

"Hereof, the Assembly notes that Greece has suspended the initiation of a public auction until the official publication of the relevant judgement of the Greek Council of State and that it has declared that it will comply fully and unreservedly with that judgement. The Assembly also notes that the Greek government has legislated that the number of television broadcasting licenses will be determined with the consent of the National Board for Radio and Television, the relevant independent authority, which will also conduct the public auction"