Our aims are based on two documents: our statutes, which we adopted in Torino in 1998, and the Strasbourg Manifesto from 1995. This manifesto has been signed by numerous European organisations.  

Aims

 Art.2 of the statutes

The organisation aims to reduce the volume and dangers of European freight  traffic to a level which is not harmful to humans, animals and plants and their habitats..

This necessitates a fundamentally new transport policy which is orientated around the principles of the Strasbourg manifesto of October 16 ^th , 1995.

The manifesto

Manifesto for a humane and environmentally friendly transport policy

The dangers of European freight traffic have reached a level which is harmful to humans, animals and plants and their habitats. No country can solve this problem alone. We need international cooperation to improve quality of life and to preserve and develop regional economic activities. In this context we commit ourselves to the development and implementation of new rules on a European level, taking the Alpine Initiative as an example and demanding the entry into force of the Alpine Convention.

Our activities are guided by the following principles:

• Have all transport modes pay their true costs, including social and ecological costs.

• Give priority to long-distance transport  by rail and on existing waterway and along the coast.

• Optimise the use of transport capacities and improve existing infrastructures, particularly so as to reduce the burden of transport.

• Ensure the promotion of regional economic cycles to reduce long-distance road and air transport.

• Contrary to present decision processes, these four basic principles give impetus to a long-term sustainable development.

We finally demand that ensured transparency and a more democratic approach be part of all public decisions.

Strassburg, 16. october 1995