The Council invites Member States to continue the work on the protection of minors by promoting widespread use of awareness-raising campaigns even when Member States have differing approaches to protecting minors. The Council also encourages providers of on line media content to take full account of the protection of minors in the design of their services and to develop and adhere to relevant codes of conduct.

The Council conclusions on the protection of children in the digital world reached at the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council meeting, invite Member States to continue the work on the protection of minors by promoting widespread use of awareness-raising campaigns to address children, parents, teachers and others working with children, and by promoting consistency in teaching on line safety and media literacy in schools as well as in early childhood education and care institutions.

In addition the Council also encourages providers of on line media content, internet service providers, social networking sites and on line discussion fora to take full account of the protection of minors in the design of their services and to develop and adhere to relevant codes of conduct. This recommendation is based, among other things, in a Commission report which considers that the social networks could improve the default settings in order to better protect minors' privacy.  The development of appropriate contents for minors is also a recommendation made by the Council.

With regard to the Commission, European ministers invite to this European institution to build on ongoing funding and actions in the field carried out mainly through the Safer Internet Programme in order to create the appropriate infrastructure and services at European level for sharing resources and tools to protect minors and empower children, parents, teachers and other carers to use the Internet and new technologies safely and responsibly.