European Newspaper Publishers Association
The European Newspaper Publishers' Association (ENPA) is an international, non-profit, advocating the interests of the European newspaper publishing industry at different European and international organisations and institutions. The association represents over 5,200 national, regional and local newspaper titles, published in 25 European countries and read by over 300 million Europeans every day, in addition to the millions of unique daily visits to online newspapers websites. Publishing industries as a whole constitute an important economic sector in the EU employing more than 750,000 people in 64,000 companies
ENPA's Mission Statement has several stated objectives:
- to enable European newspaper publishers to speak with one voice towards the European institutions and influence policy in publishers’ common interests;
- to represent and defend the interests of the press as far as any legislative or policy issue that might have an influence on the freedom or the economic role of newspapers in Europe;
- to preserve and promote fundamental rights and in particular press freedom as a cornerstone of democracy, as well as commercial freedom as the precondition for economic viability;
- to act as an early warning system for pending legislation or regulation, primarily from the European Union and Council of Europe, for the newspaper publishing industry;
- to provide services to members and their publishers, which are closely aligned to its lobbying mandate such as the transmission of information on the current state of legislative initiatives and its likely impact, and
- to favour pluralism and diversity of media content.
ENPA is a member of the World Association of Newspapers, non-profit, non-governmental organisation made up of 76 national newspaper associations, 12 news agencies, 10 regional press organisations and individual newspaper executives in 100 countries.
ENPA is registered observer at the Council of Europe where its delegates participate in the work of the Media and Information Society Division .
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