If the complaint is assessed as justifiable, the German press council, for example, has at its disposal four instruments of various degrees of rigor: the mildest is advice, the next is a warning i.e. a non-public reprimand (in this case, the purpose of discretion is to avoid causing harm to the victim) and finally a public reprimand that must be published in the newspaper that violated the code.
Nemški tiskovni svet ima, če prepozna pritožbo za upravičeno, v rokah štiri stopnje orodja: najmilejše .-nasvet mediju, ki je zagrešil nepravilnost, potem opomin, nejavni ukor (nejavnost je v tem primeru uporabljena samo zato, da ne bi prizadela žrtve) in nazadnje javni ukor . tega pa časopis, tako se je zavezal v posebni izjavi, mora objaviti.