Charter of Parma

The Charter of Parma is a strategic document approved by the National Representatives Group for digitisiation during the meeting in Parma which took place the 19th November 2003 during the European Conference of Minerva.
This documents represents the natural consequence of one of the NRG's priorities: to strengthen the group mission, to obtain a political acknowledgements at the highest levels, to promote the adoption of the recommendations and guidelines produced.
The contents included in the Charter of Parma are summarized in ten points:

1. Intelligent use of the Internet
2. Accessibility
3. Quality
4. Intellectual property and privacy
5. Interoperability and standards
6. Inventories and Multilingualism
7. Benchmarking
8. Relations with European and international institutions
9. Enlargement and co-operation
10. Future perspectives

The Italian Presidency, through its National Representative, has presented this collective work to CAC, The Committee for Cultural Affairs of the Council of Ministers of the European Union last 27 October 2003.
The document has also been presented to the formal Council of Culture Ministers last 24 November 2003.

• 19 November 2003. Final version
• 4 November 2003. Draft