The main policy objectives were to ensure that Union policy-makers, when initiating new Union law, would be provided with views other than those expressed by financial sector professionals, to ensure that the interests of consumers and other financial services end-users would be reflected in new Union law, to ensure that the wider public would be better informed about issues at stake in financial regulation, thereby enhancing financial literacy, and to ensure that the active participation of consumers and other financial services end-users would be enhanced in Union policy-making in the area of financial services, resulting in well-balanced Union law.
Ba iad na príomhchuspóirí beartais a bhí ann a áirithiú go bhfaigheadh lucht ceaptha beartas an Aontais, agus dlí nua an Aontais á thionscnamh acu, tuairimí seachas tuairimí gairmithe de chuid na hearnála airgeadais, a áirithiú go ndéanfaí leasanna tomhaltóirí agus úsáideoirí deiridh eile na seirbhísí airgeadais a léiriú i ndlí nua an Aontais, gurbh fhearr a dhéanfaí an pobal trí chéile a chur ar an eolas faoi na saincheisteanna a bhíonn i dtreis i rialáil airgeadais, as a leanann feabhsú ar litearthacht airgeadais, agus a áirithiú go bhfeabhsófaí rannpháirteachas gníomhach tomhaltóirí agus úsáideoirí deiridh seirbhísí airgeadais eile i bpróiseas ceaptha beartas an Aontais i réimse na seirbhísí airgeadais, as a leanann dlí Aontais dea-chothromaithe.