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The Venice Commission wishes to make the following key recommendations:


A. Defining more precisely, in the Law on Counteracting Extremist Activity and in related provisions of the Criminal Code (Articles 3461 and 3462), legal concepts that trigger restrictive measures, inter alia, the terms “extremist activity” – which should include clearly articulated intent requirements and a high threshold linked to incitement to violence or comparable forms of concrete harm, “participation in any form in the activities of an extremist organisation”, “providing any form of support to an extremist organisation”, “dissemination of extremist material” and “facts denoting extremism” [paras 63, 64, 70, 71];