28 The restrictions against the right mentioned above can be found in the Code of Conduct for Political Parties and the Media during the 2010 4 electoral period and in its Articles 22, 23, 24 and 25 which require the Media to: - Avoid reporting on political speeches and programmes promoting lies, brain washing, and incitement to ballot rigging. - Avoid all biased or malicious comments against Political Parties and their programmes and all disparagement of Political Parties or their Candidates. - Undertake to ban all forms of discrimination by guaranteeing fair and equal access to their organs of expression and impartial treatment of the different political actors. - Endeavour to guarantee favourable conditions for better output. The National Communication Council can also seize the Public Ministry about the most serious cases against which no sanctions have been set out within the media related offences but which are liable to threaten the profession. The Council guarantees arbitration in cases of conflicts relative to the exercise of the freedom of the press opposing the Heads of the Institutions and the Journalists or the various press institutions amongst themselves. NB: The decisions of the Council can be subjected to an appeal for reversal before the Administrative Court. Article 10: The Right of Association 1. Every individual shall have the right to assemble freely with others provided that he abides by the law. 2. Subject to the obligation provided for in Article 29 no one may be compelled to join an Association. Article 32 of the Constitution of 18 March 2005 sanctions « the freedom (..) of association, likewise the right to set up Associations or Organizations in conformity with the law ». For the persons pursuing the same interests Decree-Law n° 1/111 of 18 April 1992 establishing the organic framework for non-profit making Associations guarantees specifically the freedom of Association in the Republic of Burundi. 4 Ministry of the Interior, Code of Conduct for the Political Parties and the Media during the 2010 electoral period, February 2010.