Accordingly, the Assembly recommends that the Committee of
Ministers task the Steering Committee on Media and Information Society
and, possibly, the European Committee on Legal Co-operation with:
2.1 assessing the conformity of
national legal provisions on transparency and the right of access
to information with the standards set out in the Council of Europe
Convention on Access to Official Documents (CETS No. 205), including
in order to promote ratification of that convention;
2.2 assessing the conformity of national legal provisions
on the protection of whistle-blowers with the principles laid down
in Committee of Ministers Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)7 on the protection
of whistleblowers;
2.3 identifying the possible needs of member States with a
view to developing the exchanges of experience and co-operation
activities required to support legislative reform in the fields
of the right of access to information and the protection of whistle-blowers.
