constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:22 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) Page 62