Brussels, 16/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Venice Commission, a body of the Council of Europe, upon the request of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has adopted its opinion on the compatibility of the Italian ''Gasparri'' and ''Frattini'' laws with European standards. The Gasparri law stipulates that a single person cannot own more than 20% of a country's television channels whereas the Frattini law focuses on conflicts of interest, banning the accumulation of public responsibility with a private company board of management (the two laws closely involve prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and his Mediaset media empire). The Assembly is concerned above all by the question of whether the “Gasparri” law meets the standards of media pluralism and independent public service broadcasting, and whether the Frattini law resolves the conflict of interest between media ownership and the discharge of public office at the highest level. The Venice Commission criticises the too flexible market indicators (in its opinion) utilised in the Gasparri law for defining dominant market positions in the media. It also has doubts that the privatisation planned by the Gasparri law mitigates politicisation of the RAI broadcasting channel. It considers that the Frattini law des not really change the current situation in the Italian media and that the relations between media ownership and the exercise of a public mandate was not the law's main objective. This law bans the accumulation of public responsibility with a private company management but not with its ownership.