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1. To carry out the 1st International Conference on Alcohol and Harm Reduction: towards a comprehensive alcohol policy in countries in transition and developing countries', with the participation of countries from Latin America, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as guests from Australia, Holland, United States and Italy.
2. To promote exchange of information and experience about alcohol and harm reduction.
3. To promote innovative approaches for alcohol policies aimed at the reduction of alcohol related harm, which are based on facts rather than beliefs (pragmatic) and take into account the fact that alcohol consumption is an integral part of many societies with both negative and positive consequences (realism).
4. To promote policies which do not condemn those who have and/or cause alcohol related problems (non-judgemental).
5. To give opportunity to empowerment, i.e the strengthening of people‘s own responsibility (internal control) along measures based on external control.
6. To include all parties with legitimate public health interests involved in the alcohol field and stimulate co-operation between them (synergy).
7. To extend harm reduction policies from the field of injecting drug use to the field of alcohol use, aiming at reducing the harms which can be caused to individuals and their environment by alcohol misuse at home, in the street, in traffic, through the media and at specific phases in life, such as pregnancy, youth etc.
8. To debate the responsibility of media in communicating the theme through existing marketting practices.
9. To consider the meaning of excessive alcohol use in countries confronted with poverty, war, violence, and diseases.
10. To dissiminate experiences concerning less repressive and more harm reduction oriented alcohol-interventions in various parts of the world
11. To promote a debate among and an active participation of the conference participants aiming at the development of concrete proposals in working groups
12. To record the conclusions in a final report with the objective to offer elements for a new comprehensive alcohol policy for the countries involved.