47 certification to the effect that Mr. Herrera Ulloa’s name was not listed in the Judiciary’s Record. 78 95(jj) Article 13 of the Law on the Judiciary’s Record and Archives states that the information contained in the Record shall be accessible. Article 20 of that law provides that the files and documents in the record may be reviewed by, inter alia, law students and other persons for research purposes, when those purposes are duly authorized.” 79 With regard to crimes against honor under the Costa Rican Penal Code 95(kk) On November 30, 1998, the Executive Branch of the Costa Rican government introduced a bill in Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly for Protection of Freedom of the Press. 80 On April 22, 2004, the Legislative Assembly’s Committee on the Press issued a report on the Bill on Freedom of Expression and the Press, which suggested amendment of, inter alia, articles 147 (crime of calumny), 151 (exclusion of the crime) and 155 (publication as a gesture of satisfaction) of the Costa Rican Penal Code, repeal of Article 149 (proof of truth) of the Code, amendment of articles 204 (duty to testify) and 380 (criminal complaint and transfer) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, repeal of Article 7 of Print Law No. 32 of July 12, 1902, and inclusion of the “conscience clause.” 81 With regard to provisional measures 95(ll) The State complied with the provisional measures ordered by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights on September 7, 2001. 82 78 Cf. Certification from the Office of the Judiciary’s Record of Convicted Felons, dated December 4, 2001 (file on provisional measures in the “La Nación” case, volume II, annex to the State’s December 4, 2001 observations on the November 30, 2001 brief filed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, folio 477). 79 Cf. Law on the Judiciary’s Record and Archives Nº 6723 (file on provisional measures in the “La Nación” case, volume I, annex 1 to the State’s Report of August 16, 2001, folios 237-239). 80 Cf. recitals of the bill for the Protection of Freedom of the Press (file of documents supplied by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the State at the public hearing on May 22, 2001 on the request for provisional measures in the “La Nación” case, annex 4). In this document, the State observed that “the actual legal regulation […] constitutes a sword of Damocles hanging dangerously over journalists and posing a threat to their autonomy and integrity in the unfettered practice of their profession, and is in reality a mechanism of prior censorship.” 81 Cf. Draft bill of the Law on Freedom of Express and of the Press of the Legislative Assembly’s Press Committee, April 22, 2004 (file of evidence presented during the public hearing held on April 30 and May 1, 2004, single volume, folios 3462-3465); and document titled “The Costa Rican Government’s Position at the hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on case 12,367, Mauricio Herrera and La Nación,” May 4, 2001 (file of annexes to the application, volume II, annex 10, folio 12201225). 82 Cf. Comments from the representatives of Mr. Mauricio Herrera Ulloa, the beneficiary of the provisional measures, on the letter rogatory from the Criminal Court of the First Judicial Circuit of San José of November 20, 2002 (file on provisional measures in the “La Nación” case, volume II, annex to the observations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to the State’s brief of December 4, 2002, folio 603).