Mission Statement – The purpose of the European Association for Transactional Analysis is the following:

• To promote knowledge and research on Transactional Analysis, to develop its theory, and to ensure agreed standards of practice.
• To promote cooperation in Europe in the field of Transactional Analysis.
• Membership: the members of the Association are affiliated members of EATA through their national, regional, international or specialist TA Associations, which are affiliated with EATA.
• The rights and conditions of Affiliation are decided by the EATA Council and layed down in the Council Regulations.
• Only exceptionally individual members can be accepted where special circumstances warrant this.

For the implementation of its purposes, the Association will, in particular:

• work to ensure conformity to agreed standards of training, certification and practice of Transactional Analysis in Europe.
• encourage the participation of Transactional Analysis (TA) Associations in the formation and execution of EATA policy.
• aid European TA Associations to coordinate their activities, including conferences, training and certification, publications and information, by facilitating communication between them.
• organize European and intercontinental conferences on Transactional Analysis.
• provide information by way of publications and the diffusion of documents and texts.
• translate works and documents about Transactional Analysis into European languages.
• encourage the professional development of practitioners of Transactional Analysis. support scientific research into the theory and practice of Transactional Analysis.
• encourage contacts with persons and organisations interested in the development of human resources in fields other than that of Transactional Analysis.
• call on the collaboration of specialists and practitioners.