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IN SHOWCASE

Competition Distortion
in India

– A Dossier


Call for
World Competition Day

A CUTS Proposal




 

 

UPCOMING EVENT

International Conference on
Quality of Regulation: Case Research and Analysis

March 27, 2010,
New Delhi, India

A Pilot Project on Capacity Building on Electricity Reforms in Nepal, Bangladesh and India
- RESA Project
- Regional Conference

April 09-10, 2010, Kolkata,
West Bengal, India

CALL FOR PAPERS

CDRF IInd Cycle


ConsumerRegimes

NEWSLETTERS


Vol.10 No.4/2009


Vol.10 No.4/2009

OUR E-FORUMS

FunComp Forum

COLF

PRESS ROOM

Multiple regulators for Oil & Gas: Replication of Old Problems?
Jaipur, February 04, 2010

West Africa: Ecowas, NGOs Trace Root of African Poverty
Daily Independent, Nigeria, January 17, 2010

Consumer Rights: ECOWAS, Stakeholders Seek Law Enforcement
THISDAY, Nigeria,
January 15, 2010

 

CONSUMER PROTECTION POLICY

PROJECT

Strengthening the Consumer Protection Regime in the World

CUTS announces launch of the project entitled 'Strengthening the Consumer Protection Regime' (ConsumerRegimes). The term Consumer Protection is a comprehensive term comprising not only a set of regulations and legal framework but also a commitment to protect consumers against deprivation from the basic needs of life, and ensuring a respectable living.

The United Nations Guidelines on Consumer Protection, 1985 stresses and urges the role of governments to develop and maintain a strong consumer protection policy. Each government should set its own priorities for the protection of consumers in accordance with the economic, social and environmental circumstances of the country and the needs of its population, bearing in mind the costs and benefits of proposed measures.

Governments all over the world have been trying to build a strong legal and regulatory framework to ensure consumer interests’ and welfare. While some countries already have a well developed consumer protection regime in place, there are many countries that are in process of evolving such regime.

The report aims to compile and conduct an analysis of The State of Consumers Around the World by collecting Country Chapters, a 10-12 pager essays on the Consumer Protection Regime.

We have prepared a template paper on India, which will serve as a guide for pattern and format for other papers to follow Click Here>>.

The report will serve as a platform:

  • to identify the prevailing gap between the ideal and actual situation in the countries on individual basis and attempt to fill in that gap by following good practices of a well developed Consumer Protection Regime;

  • for comparative analysis between developed, developing and under-developed countries on their approaches to Protection of Consumers; and

  • for strengthening the knowledge base of the civil society organisations, governments, intergovernmental organisations and other stakeholders by providing a ready reckoner in the form of a comprehensive report

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