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Chapter 2: Of the Superior Council for Audiovisual Media
and of Communication
• Media commission
Article 212
A Superior Council for Audiovisual Media and of Communication is instituted with
juridical personality.
It has the mission to guarantee and to assure the freedom and the protection of the
press, as well as of all the means of mass communication with respect for the law.
It sees to the respect for that which is dutiful [de la déontologie] in matters of
information and to the equitable access of the political parties, of the associations
and of the citizens to the official means of information and of communication.
The composition, the attributions, the organization and the functioning of the
Superior Council for Audiovisual Media and Communication are established by an
organic law.
TITLE VI: OF THE INTERNATIONAL
TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS
• International law
• Treaty ratification
Article 213
The President of the Republic negotiates and the ratifies international treaties and
agreements.
The Government concludes the international agreements not submitted to
ratification after deliberation in the Council of Ministers. It so informs the National
Assembly and the Senate.
• International law
Article 214
The peace treaties, the treaties of commerce, the treaties and agreements of
concern to the international organizations and to the regulation of international
conflicts, those which engage the public finances, those which modify the legislative
provisions, those which concern the status of persons, [and] those which involve the
exchange and addition of territory, may only be ratified or approved by virtue of a
law.
No cession, no exchange [or] no addition of territory is valid without the agreement
of the Congolese People consulted by way of referendum.
• International law
• Legal status of treaties
Article 215
The international treaties and agreements, regularly concluded, have, on their
publication, an authority superior to that of the laws, under reserve for each treaty
and agreement, of its the application by the other party.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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