The Committee of Ministers has adopted a recommendation calling on European states to safeguard the principle of network neutrality in the development of national legal frameworks in order to ensure the protection of the right to freedom of expression and to access to information, and the right to privacy.

This   recommendation contains a set of network neutrality guidelines on network neutrality in terms of equal treatment of internet traffic, pluralism and diversity of information, privacy, transparency and accountability.

Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on protecting and promoting the right to freedom of expression and the right to private life with regard to network neutrality