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- To sustain and grow Europe's media economy in print, in broadcast and online
- To inform, educate, entertain and communicate with Europe's consumers
- To maintain a diverse media as rich and varied as its consumers
- To protect freedom of speech and democracy in the European Union
The EPC achieves its goals through the following measures:
- By encouraging the development of the media, old and new, with the lightest of regulatory frameworks so that they can flourish without the outdated legal constraints considered necessary at a time of spectrum scarcity.
- By promoting the establishment of self regulatory codes for editorial and advertising content and of mechanisms for the public to seek speedy and effective redress where appropriate.
- By ensuring access for news reporters and their cameras to events and information which serve the public interest.
- By promoting competition amongst those media without the Public Service media using their licence income or subsidy from government to unfair competitive advantage.
- By safeguarding the copyright of publishers' content and authors' work and by commissioning high quality content.
- By seeking to secure for publishers, when they purchase that content, practical contracts that will work across all media.
- By exempting the written word from taxation (whether on paper, on storage medium or on screen), thus avoiding unwarranted barriers to literacy which is so vital at work and at leisure.
- By recognizing that advertising performs an essential role in providing consumers with information about goods and services and so guarantees competition in a free market economy.
- By securing the freedom of commercial communication so that advertising income, crucial to media businesses, is not jeopardized by intrusive legislation.
- By empowering, where redress at law is sought, a citizen to use the statutes of the country of origin of the medium in question and so ensure practical remedy across national boundaries.
- By promoting security of commerce on the internet and so encouraging consumer confidence.
- By adhering to proper use of databases and information about consumers.
- By acting to maintain the freedom of the internet from unnecessary or intrusive regulation.
- By publicizing the activities of the European Commission and Parliament, and the working of the Internal Market so that the public are informed about the institutions which govern them.
