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Consumer
Protection Regimes Around the World
CUTS has
initiated a project entitled 'Consumer
Protection Regimes Around the World' (ConsumerRegimes).
The outcome of this project will be a report –
a biennial volume, which will be a collection
of about 40 odd country essays explaining the
country-specific state of consumer protection
regime. CUTS intends to publish Volume I under
the above-mentioned project by the end of
2010.
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.
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 a regime.
The report will
serve as a platform:
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for
identifying 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;
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for
comparative analysis between developed,
developing and under-developed countries on
their approaches to Protection of Consumers;
and
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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.
CUTS has
developed a
template paper on India, which serves as
the format for other papers to follow. The
paper can also be viewed at:
http://cuts-ccier.org/pdf/ConsumerProtectionRegime-India.pdf
For further
information please contact:
Richa Bhatnagar:
rb2@cuts.org
Rijit Sengupta:
rsg@cuts.org
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