COBCOE

• Believes in constrcutive dialogue as a partner with "government", whether local, national or supranational, and the business community, with the objective of encouraging successful trade and commerce for the common good;
  
• Is committed to free trade and open borders for business, and supports equal treatment and liberalisation of goods and services;
  
• Supports the objective of making Europe a "dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy";
  
• Is opposed to unnecessary legislation and bureaucracy;
  
• Encourages business to act responsibly within the greater community
  

Adopted by the Council in London on 25th April 2006