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European Consumer Day 2006,
Vienna, 15 March 2006

On 15 March 2006, the Austrian Presidency in cooperation with the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will organise the 8th European Consumer Day. The choice of date marks US President John F. Kennedy's decleration to the US Congress on 15 March 1962, when he spoke in support of consumers and spelled out four fundamental consumer rights.

A number of years later, the United Nations decided that 15 March of each year would be a special consumer rigths' day across the world. The European Consumer Day (ECD) was launched on 15 March 1999 at the EESC's initiative, with the aim of making the public more aware of EU consumer policy and informing people of the on-going work in this area. Since then a range of issues affecting consumers, from consumer safety to consumer confidence in e-commerce, has been addressed each year.

The topic this year will be the consumer education, which, if effectively put in place, could give consumers the knowledge and skills necessary to protect their own rigths to a larger extent. The debates being planned will include an overview of past and present initiatives in this field with a focus on the role of networks and NGOs as actors and on adults and children as recievers of education. A final discussion will look at the challenges for consumer education including such issues as globalization and the e-gap, media, the role for the EU and Member States and many other important factors.

This event will take the form of a dialogue between stakeholders drawn from the EU institutions, national and local authorities and representatives of civil society: consumer and employer organisations, trade unions, professional associations, NGOs, education establishments and others concerned by the topic.  

Further information on this event is available in the download section and on the official website of the European Economic and Social Committee.



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