It intended to create an association to protect the interests of the participants through the formation of a trade organisation, a plan that ultimately failed.
[1] Vitagraph an American producer and member of the MPCC, but who had extensive distribution and production interests in Europe, also attended.
It was called mainly in response to the formation of the MPCC, a cartel of the leading film producers in the United States, organised by Thomas Edison.
The formation of the MPCC in late 1908, encouraged those European producers excluded from the pact to seek a similar arrangement in Europe to protect their interests.
However this arrangement, which excluded any European producers not part of the Congress, was ruled to be illegal under French law.