accomplish its mission in the best of conditions. Amendments to the Press Code had been introduced three times with a view to enabling journalists assume their role in total liberty and to enjoy a conducive climate for the exercise of their activities. The freedom of informing, of exercising the profession of journalist and of assuming the function of public scout involves duties and responsibilities and cannot fail to be subjected to certain formalities and conditions stipulated in the Press Code and which constitute a necessary guarantee within a democratic society for the protection of the reputation or the rights of others, to preclude the disclosure of confidential information and the violation of the dignity of the human being. 23. To assist the recognized Political Parties in guaranteeing the publication of their newsletters regularly and to better portray their points of view, an annual allocation as subvention for their newspapers was granted by the law n° 99-27 of 29th March 1999, completing the law n° 97-48 of the 21st July 1997 relative to the funding by the State of the activities of Political Parties. 24. The repeal of the provision on legal copyrighting effected by organic law n° 2006-1 of 9th January 2006, amending the Press Code, constituted a new farreaching measure in the process of consolidation of the freedom of expression, of information and of edition in Tunisia. The most important, after the repeal of the legal copyrighting procedure, is to see newspapers becoming a space for dialogue, for exchange and discussion of the problems which concern the future of the country, the defence of its achievements and which are moving towards other achievements, particularly where the Tunisian elite has been able to show its rejection of obscurantist tendencies and of all forms of extremism. 25. The opening of an audiovisual space to the private sector impacted in a major manner on the enrichment, the plurality and diversity of information. Thus, for the purpose of promoting pluralism, two radio stations and an extra TV channel were created respectively in 2003 and 2005. The commencement of broadcasts from the cultural Radio in May 2006 are also aimed at promoting the presence of all the expressions of Tunisian culture within the communication and broadcasting facilities, allowing the deployment of creation capacities, the creation of spaces for dialogue between intellectuals and artists and contributing, by the same token, to the dissemination of scientific and technological culture as well as the culture of human rights, of the rights of women, of the child, of tolerance and of openness. 26. The opposition parties have their publications, likewise the trade unions and the other components of civil society. Seen as an unchanging choice and a continuous process, the consolidation of the freedom of expression and of information is aimed at strengthening the role of the media in launching the pluralist democratic process, in stimulating democracy through free and responsible debate, in consolidating the participation of the Political Parties in the pluralist democratic process, in the unremitting dissemination of the civic spirit through media programmes. 27. With a wealth of human potential and conscious of the challenges of the New Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Tunisia is totally committed to the building of a society of knowledge at the national level and has contributed, at the regional and international levels, to the reduction of the digital divide 10