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The Council attaches a very great deal of weight to protecting fundamental rights. According to Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union, the European Union is founded upon a number of principles common to the Member States, namely the principles of freedom, democracy and respect for human rights, together with the fundamental freedoms and the principle of the constitutional state. It is specified in the same Article that the fundamental rights are to be respected by the European Union as general principles for Community law. It ought however to be noted that circumstances of the kind described in the Member’s question are a matter for the Member States.
On the question of libraries and the promotion of democracy and culture, the Council would remind you that, in Article 151 of the EC Treaty, it is specified that the Community’s efforts to contribute to the development of culture in the Member States, at the same time as respecting the latter’s national and regional diversity, should be aimed at promoting cooperation between the Member States. If need be, the Community’s efforts should also support and augment the Member States’ activities in a number of areas: firstly, improving people’s knowledge of, and disseminating information about, the European peoples’ culture and history; secondly, preserving and protecting such cultural heritage as is of significance to Europe as a whole; thirdly, promoting cultural exchange of a non-commercial nature; and fourthly, supporting artistic and literary creation, including within the audiovisual sector.
In accordance with the codecision procedure, the Council, together with the European Parliament, therefore assumed on 28 June 1999 a common position on the adoption of a decision to establish a uniform instrument for financing cultural cooperation and for planning programmes for such cooperation. It is called the Culture 2000 programme."@en1
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