[Ecommerce] Dispute Resolution OECD workshop (FTC Wash. DC April 19-20)

[Manon Ress]

Dear Colleagues,
3rd week of April will be busy for the many transatlantic consumer
groups that are meeting in Washington DC.  Here's an announcement for
another meeting, this one held by the OECD at the FTC re crossborder
disputes. Info below.
Manon

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OECD Workshop on Consumer Dispute Resolution and Redress in the Global
Marketplace,  Washington, DC, 19-20 April 2005.  For more information:
www.oecd.org/sti/consumer-policy.

On 19- 20 April, the OECD will hold a workshop on Consumer Dispute
Resolution and Redress in the Global Marketplace in Washington, DC. The
workshop will bring together experts from governments, business,
consumer groups, and academia to examine approaches to dispute
resolution and redress mechanisms in OECD member countries and exchange
views about the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches,
particularly in the cross=ADborder context. The workshop will take stock
of new developments in industry-sponsored or voluntary dispute
resolution and redress mechanisms; examine various court and other
state-run procedures for the resolution of individual and collective
low-value consumer disputes; discuss the role that consumer protection
enforcement agencies can play in facilitating consumer redress; and
consider ways to improve the effectiveness of consumer redress in
cross-border cases.

Keynote speakers include Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman of the US
Federal Trade Commission and Markos Kyprianou, European Union
Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection.

Organised by the OECD's Committee on Consumer Policy, the workshop will
be hosted by the US government at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Conference Center, 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. The
workshop will be open to the press and the public, but will require
advance registration and will be limited by available space. Further
information about the workshop, including the agenda and registration
details is available at www.oecd.org/sti/consumer-policy.


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