The Association is an independent European non-governmental association, without profit motive whose purposes shall be:
• To unite health librarians and information officers in Europe and to act as a channel of communication between them through a newsletter, electronic media, meetings, conferences and such other means as shall seem appropriate from time to time.
• To promote the training, education and mobility of health librarians and information officers in Europe, and to find practical ways of improving co-operation in the sector of health libraries and information services, particularly in less developed parts of the world with preference for European countries.
• To support the improvement of professional skills and promote quality and standardisation in European health libraries.
• To seek to identify and define the needs for common effort and to initiate activities for the benefit of health information and libraries in Europe, in co-operation with other international and national associations, organisations and institutions.
• To promote the professional interests of the membership when and where needed.