E/CN.4/1995/78 page 27 the individual communications procedure provided for in article 14 of the Convention and withdrawal of reservations limiting the scope of the Convention which may have been formulated by States; Remind the member States of the Council of Europe of the great importance of drawing up a protocol revising article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights so as to achieve full recognition of the principle of non-discrimination in the European order; Emphasize the need to facilitate access to naturalization by foreigners and stateless persons and to fully implement the Convention of the Council of Europe on the participation of foreigners in public life at the local level; Express the hope that national institutions for the protection and promotion of human rights will contribute actively to the struggle against racism and xenophobia, if necessary extending their internal jurisdiction to these matters; Advocate the consolidation of statistics and information at the European level, according to homogeneous structures and references permitting a comparative assessment of racist actions and phenomena, both in time and in space; Express the hope that periodic European surveys will be conducted on a broad scale, enabling the evolution of public opinion to be better grasped; Encourage a pooling of existing documentation, particularly through the establishment of data banks on legislation and jurisprudence related to action to combat racism and xenophobia; Suggest that national institutions should be specifically empowered to prosecute racist offences both by the public authorities and in relations between private individuals; Recommend that national institutions should take the initiative, in consultation with the professional groups concerned, of drawing up codes of good conduct concerning non-discrimination in the public services and in private relationships; Recommend that States should exercise the utmost vigilance with regard to gaps in European harmonization which lend themselves to delocalizations and transboundary activities circumventing national legislation against racism and to revisionism; Call for a study of the use of new technologies (video games, computer networks) for the propagation of racial hatred and the urgent proposal of a set of internal and international measures to end such abuses;