E/CN.4/1995/78 page 17 79. The Racial Hatred Bill does not prohibit actions or words committed in good faith in the course of any statement, publication, discussion or debate for an academic, artistic or scientific purpose or any other purpose in the public interest. C. 1. Austria Legal measures 80. Austrian legislation includes, in particular, laws designed to ban Nazi and neo-Nazi parties and their activities. It also prohibits incitement to racial hatred, denial of the Jewish holocaust and the wearing of Nazi insignia. The laws in question, the details of which may be consulted at the secretariat of the Centre for Human Rights, are as follows: (a) Constitutional Law of 8 May 1945, Government Law Gazette No. 13/1945, concerning the Prohibition of the Nazi Party (Prohibition Act), as amended by Federal Law Gazette No. 148/1992; (b) Federal Constitutional Law of 3 July 1973, Federal Law Gazette No. 390/1973 for the Implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; (c) Administrative Proceedings (Introduction) Act, Federal Law Gazette No. 50/1991 as amended by Federal Law Gazette No. 143/1992; (d) Penal Code: paragraph 3; Section 283 ("Incitement to Hatred") and Section 117, (e) Federal Law of 5 April 1960, Federal Law Gazette No. 84/1960, Prohibiting Certain Badges ("Badges Act") as amended by Federal Law Gazette No. 117/1980. In 1993, there were 18 convictions and 4 acquittals under the law on incitement to racial hatred. 2. Policies and other non-legal measures taken 81. Austrian public authorities engage in a wide range of activities to combat racism and intolerance. Some examples may be mentioned in the following paragraphs. 82. In the security services, which come under the jurisdiction of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, officers receive special training on these subjects and special units are assigned to combat extremism and terrorism. At the political level, the Ministry runs a number of information operations, addressed in particular to educational authorities, school faculties, pupils, counselling services for compulsory vocational schools, the youth departments of the Land governments, educational staff in homes for young people, and youth workers. Meetings with local and Land school boards are held at least