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Community radio broadcasters adopt a Charter for Europe

The following Charter was approved by European community radio
broadcasters at the recent AMARC-Europe conference in Slovenia.
The Charter forms a central part of the strategy of AMARC-Europe
in bringing pressure to bear on European governments to recognise
the community radio sector.

Community radio stations and associations in Europe will be
invited to adopt the Charter and encouraged to use it in their own
negotiations with governments reluctant to make space for
community radio development.

Further information on AMARC-Europe is available from:

15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX

Tel: +44 742 795219   Fax: +44 742 798976 E-mail:
amarc@gn.apc.org

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The Community Radio Charter for Europe

Recognising that community radio is an ideal means of fostering
freedom of expression and information, the development of culture,
the freedom to form and confront opinions and active participation
in local life; noting that different cultures and traditions lead
to a diversity of forms of community radio; this Charter
identifies objectives which community radio stations share and
should strive to achieve.

Community radio stations:

1. promote the right to communicate, assist the free flow of
information and opinions, encourage creative expression and
contribute to the democratic process and a pluralist society;

2. provide access to training, production and distribution
facilities; encourage local creative talent and foster local
traditions; and provide programmes for the benefit, entertainment,
education and development of their listeners;

3. seek to have their ownership representative of local
geographically recognisable communities or of communities of
common interest;

4. are editorially independent of government, commercial and
religious institutions and political parties in determining their
programme policy;

5. provide a right of access to minority and marginalised groups
and promote and protect cultural and linguistic diversity;

6. seek to honestly inform their listeners on the basis of
information drawn from a diversity of sources and provide a right
of reply to any person or organisation subject to serious
misrepresentation;

7. are established as organisations which are not run with a view
to profit and ensure their independence by being financed from a
variety of sources;

8. recognise and respect the contribution of volunteers, recognise
the right of paid workers to join trade unions and provide
satisfactory working conditions for both;

9. operate management, programming and employment practices which
oppose discrimination and which are open and accountable to all
supporters, staff and volunteers;

10. foster exchange between community radio broadcasters using
communications to develop greater understanding in support of
peace, tolerance, democracy and development.

Adopted on 18 September 1994 in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the first
AMARC Pan-European Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters.



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AMARC - association mondiale des radiodiffuseurs communautaires
          world association of community radio broadcasters
             asociacion mundial de radios comunitarias
3575 boul. St. Laurent, Suite 704	 Tel: +(1-514) 982-0351
Montreal, Quebec			 Fax: +(1-514) 849-7129
Canada				       Email: amarc@web.apc.org
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