TACD meeting

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

This Thursday through Saturday, the Trans Atlantic Consumer
Dialogue (TACD) will hold its first full membership
meeting in Brussels.  The group was created last fall in 
a meeting in Washington, DC.

A number of US consumer groups are part of this effort,
including CPT, Consumers Union, Public Citizen, 
the Consumer Federation of America, PIRG, the Center
for Science in the Public Interest and several others.
In Europe there are members from many countries, I'm 
not sure how many. 

The TACD has a web page at http://www.tacd.org, but 
there isn't much on it just yet.  Indeed, there isn't
anything about this weeks meeting.  This is mostly
because the group is just getting organized.

The TACD is a belated attempt to create a countervailing
organization to the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD),
http://www.tabd.org, which has been around a while and which 
is quite well organized.  

Right now the TACD has three main working groups, Food policy,
electronic commerce and one for everything else.  

I am the US co-chair of the working group on e-commerce,
with Dirk Klasen from Germany. We will be discussing 
proposed policy papers on privacy, marketing and advertising 
to children, consumer protection,  intellectual property 
rights, and Information standards for Internet service 
providers.  We will also be discussing a proposal for a 
World Consumer Protection Organization. 

I'll be checking my email when I go to Brussels later this 
week, and I'll try to post some information about the 
meetings.  

 Jamie 


-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org