-4Article 6
1
The Parties shall encourage a spirit of tolerance and intercultural dialogue and take
effective measures to promote mutual respect and understanding and co-operation
among all persons living on their territory, irrespective of those persons’ ethnic,
cultural, linguistic or religious identity, in particular in the fields of education, culture
and the media.
2
The Parties undertake to take appropriate measures to protect persons who may be
subject to threats or acts of discrimination, hostility or violence as a result of their
ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious identity.
Article 7
The Parties shall ensure respect for the right of every person belonging to a national
minority to freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of association, freedom of
expression, and freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
Article 8
The Parties undertake to recognise that every person belonging to a national minority
has the right to manifest his or her religion or belief and to establish religious
institutions, organisations and associations.
Article 9
1
The Parties undertake to recognise that the right to freedom of expression of every
person belonging to a national minority includes freedom to hold opinions and to
receive and impart information and ideas in the minority language, without
interference by public authorities and regardless of frontiers. The Parties shall ensure,
within the framework of their legal systems, that persons belonging to a national
minority are not discriminated against in their access to the media.
2
Paragraph 1 shall not prevent Parties from requiring the licensing, without
discrimination and based on objective criteria, of sound radio and television
broadcasting, or cinema enterprises.
3
The Parties shall not hinder the creation and the use of printed media by persons
belonging to national minorities. In the legal framework of sound radio and television
broadcasting, they shall ensure, as far as possible, and taking into account the
provisions of paragraph 1, that persons belonging to national minorities are granted the
possibility of creating and using their own media.
4
In the framework of their legal systems, the Parties shall adopt adequate measures in
order to facilitate access to the media for persons belonging to national minorities and
in order to promote tolerance and permit cultural pluralism.
Article 10
1
The Parties undertake to recognise that every person belonging to a national minority
has the right to use freely and without interference his or her minority language, in
private and in public, orally and in writing.