Activities of Philip CLAEYS related to 2011/2246(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the EU Charter: standard settings for media freedom across the EU PDF (238 KB) DOC (149 KB)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the devising of procedures and mechanisms for the selection and appointment of media heads, management boards, media councils and regulatory bodies that are transparent, based on merit and indisputable experience and that ensure professionalism, integrity, independence, maximum consensus across the political and social spectrum and continuity, instead of political or partisan criteria in the framework of a spoil system linked to the results of elections orbeing subject to the will of those in power;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that the official protection which must be given to the media and journalists is not a licence to infringe democratically adopted legislation or deny fundamental rights such as the right to privacy, the right to respect for private life, the right to respect for reputation and honour or the ban on the unauthorised interception of telephone calls or other communications or on stalking people in the street for photographs; notes that the need for journalists and the media to protect confidential sources and whistleblowers must be balanced against the right of the national authorities and judiciaries, independently of political or other influences, to curb wrongdoing by the media and journalists through procedures established under the rule of law;