3.1 promote further improvements
for the protection of whistle-blowers by launching the process of negotiating
a binding legal instrument in the form of a framework convention
that would be open to non-member States and cover disclosures of
wrongdoings by persons employed in the field of national security
and intelligence;
3.2 meanwhile, consider ways and means to provide Council
of Europe technical assistance to member States for the implementation
of Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)7;
3.3 encourage the Secretary General to further improve the
whistle-blowing rules that are in effect in the Council of Europe,
with a view to bringing them fully into line with the principles
upheld by the Assembly and the Committee of Ministers.
