Although the committee supported the document, it said that it failed to propose concrete measures for improving the situation in this field.
Committee members described the report as being too general and criticised it for failing to stipulate concrete guidelines to help minorities exercise their rights.
Jene Adam said that the Hungarian community had not been given a penny for education in their mother tongue and urged the relevant ministry to define criteria for allocating funds for this purpose.
Aleksandar Tolnauer and Zdenka Cuhnil castigated the public media, notably the public broadcasting company HRT, for failing to implement provisions of the said constitutional law on the representation of minorities in broadcasts. Furthermore, minorities are mainly presented through sensationalism.
"Last year, minority presentation in HRT programmes was a mere 0.53 percent," Tolnauer said.
The report reads that the situation in 2005 improved compared to 2003 and 2004. Furthermore, the government is still not satisfied with some items, particularly with the exercise of the right to cultural autonomy, the use of mother tongue in units of administrative and judicial authorities, and the media's treatment of minorities.
Funds for minorities in 2005 increased by 33 percent from 2004.