November 1993
The conference of Interior Ministers of the German federal states (Länder) ratified “Verhaltensgrundsätze für Presse/Rundfunk und Polizei”. This code of conduct for press/broadcasters and the police to avoid obstructions of police work and of free reporting, together with the German Press Council, the Association of the Newspaper Publishers, the Association of Magazine Publishers, First German Television and Second German Television, the Association of Private Broadcasters and the Journalists’ Unions. It was published via Deutscher Presserat (In German).