In order to secure the viability of the achievements of the World Summit on the Information Society, which took place on November 16-18 2005 in Tunisia, the European Commission worked out the priorities of implementing its obligations in the sphere of protecting and enhancing human right. This applies to the right of receiving and having access to information. Information and communication technologies are to be utilized in order to contribute to the development of open democratic societies and economic and social progress all over the world.

In order to enhance the regulation of Internet, the Commission suggests that the international negotiations within the two processes launched during Tunisia summit be continued, namely the multinational Forum on Regulating Internet and the mechanism of Advanced Cooperation, which would embrace the governments of all the countries on equal basis.

“The European Union should be the first to create an open, accessible and indivisible global Information Society and the freedom of information, ideas and opinion exchange all over the world”, underscores Vivien Reading, a European Commission member responsible for Information Society and Mass Media. “During the World Summit in Tunisia we undertook a huge step towards global consensus by stating that Internet is to be regulated without any preferences. We are to be sure now that all these obligations are fully implemented. Intrusions into the basic structure of Internet may be warranted by the principles which are utilized by the whole international community”.

The Commission acknowledges the importance of an information society to a democracy, to the rights and fundamental freedoms of a human being; especially the freedom of expression and opinion, as well as the right to obtain and have access to information. Thus, the Commission notes that no cyber-repression should exist which is the phenomenon of utilizing information and communication technologies aimed at aiding repressive regimes to curb the free circulation of information in the web. Besides, the European Commission stresses one more time that it is ready to commence the work on the issue of proclaiming the neutral status of Internet.