According to the EU Commission, "the EU has the powers it takes to bring children’s rights in the limelight of the international scene and can use its worldwide presence and influence to promote, everywhere and effectively, their universal rights on a national scale". The first measures to be implemented by the EU to protect the rights of the young generations include: setting up one single six-digit 116- telephone number, children’s hotlines and a hotline for disappeared children or victims of sex exploitation, for the whole of the EU (by the end of 2006); aids to the bank industry and credit card companies "to fight the use of credit cards on the Internet to buy paedo-pornographic materials" (2006); a package of measures to fight children’s poverty in the EU (2007); proactive actions "as part of the plan of cooperation to development to cope with the basic needs of children in the developing countries" (2007). In addition, a "coordinator for children’s rights" will be appointed to "liaise with the EU Commission, to guarantee that more prominence be given to such rights and to coordinate the strategy with all the services concerned".
