These rights also derive from:

• The 'Declaration of the Rights of the Child' (UN, November 20, 1959, Resolution 1386).
• The 'Declaration of the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons' (Resolution 2856 of the UN General Assembly, December 20, 1971).
• The 'Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons' (Resolution 3447 of the UN General Assembly, December 9, 1975).
• The 'Sundberg Declaration on Disabled Persons' (UNESCO, November 2, 1981).
• Resolution 90/C 162/02 of the Council of Ministers of Education of the European Community concerning the integration of disadvantaged children and youth into regular education systems (May 1990).
• The European Social Charter and the Revised European Social Charter.
• Declaration 003/96 of the European Parliament concerning the Rights of Autistic Persons (Brussels, May 5, 1996), and every other declaration of human rights.

The association has an obligation to fight for these rights to become common awareness, to be safeguarded, and to be enforced through appropriate state legislation.

Specifically, E.E.P.A.A., through its constitution, has outlined its detailed objectives as well as the means to achieve them.

• For the prevention of the birth or development of autistic children due to causes related to pregnancy, childbirth, or the living conditions of the child in the early years of their life.
• For the existence of qualitatively and quantitatively sufficient diagnostic units for the early diagnosis and determination of autism in children showing symptoms, in order to prepare and timely implement an appropriate treatment, education, and rehabilitation program for each case.
• To ensure preschool education for autistic children in specialized or regular kindergartens, suitably equipped and staffed with specialized and sensitized personnel.
• To provide appropriate education for autistic children:
• In regular schools that are specially equipped and staffed, when it is deemed possible.
• In specially designed, equipped, and staffed schools for autistic children who cannot be integrated into regular schools.
• In institutions or support centers providing post-school education for individuals with special needs.
• To provide appropriate psychological support, therapeutic care, and specialized exercise for autistic individuals during childhood, adolescence, and later in life.
• To provide all kinds of assistance that families of autistic individuals need to deal with their multiple problems.
• To provide vocational training and sheltered employment for autistic individuals who are capable of it.
• To ensure means for a protected, humane, and dignified life for autistic individuals when their families are no longer living or are unable to provide it, in protected homes (for those who can live with some degree of independence) or in suitably organized communities (for those needing complete protection).
• To provide the means needed by autistic individuals to maintain their physical, mental, and emotional health. These include: providing appropriate medical and psychological care and suitable means of physical exercise and recreation.
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• To draft and enact legislative regulations that will ensure:
• The right of autistic individuals (as far as they are able), their parents, or any other legal representative to participate in all decisions concerning their lives in general and their education in particular.
• Their inheritance rights and the ability to use, with safety and reliable supervision, what was left by their parents or others for their own benefit, taking into account that autistic individuals themselves do not have the ability to manage their assets.
• The right of autistic individuals to receive an income from the State, sufficient to cover their needs for food, clothing, housing, and other needs.
• The right of autistic individuals to receive from the State the necessary materials and support services needed to live as productive, independent, and dignified a life as possible.
• The right of autistic individuals to live in homes where other people live, to use the same means of transport, to participate in the same cultural activities when they can and do not disturb others, and to have equal access to all public services and cultural or other activities of the community in which they live.
• The right of autistic individuals and their representatives to legal assistance and full protection of their legal rights.
• The right of autistic individuals and their representatives to access all information contained in their personal, medical, psychological, psychiatric, and educational records.
• The protection of autistic individuals from any mental abuse, offensive treatment, and neglect.
• The protection of autistic individuals from any abusive use of medication.

The purpose of the Association is also to facilitate scientific research on autism and the problems of diagnosis, education, medical care, family cohabitation, social welfare, and sheltered living by (a) encouraging the parents of autistic individuals and the autistic individuals themselves, when possible, to participate positively in research and (b) seeking resources to support such research as much as possible.