Ways of Implicating More Actively for the Consumers Associations in Promoting and Defending Consumer Rights
Author:Conf. univ. dr. Vasile Dinu
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Keywords:Consumers’ associations;
• Consumer protection;
• Active consumer policy.
Abstract:
It is well known that in the European
Union the good functioning of the market is
conditioned by the development of an active
consumers’ policy which can be facilitated by
the consumers’ associations that should have a
permanent dialogue with the public authorities
and the firms in order to identify the main
problems in connection with whom there is a
wide consensus. Also, the communitary strategy
concerning the consumers’ policy between 2002-
2006 has established among its medium term
objectives the one of implicating more actively
for the consumers’ organizations in promoting
the policy of protecting consumers’ rights and
interests.
Taking this into consideration, among the
major objectives of the consumers’ protection
policy and strategy in the Romanian society
(accomplishing an effective protection of life,
health and security, protecting the economic
interests, information and education, facilitating
the access in the justice and forming the
specialists in the consumers’ protection field)
there is also the objective concerning the
supporting of the foundation and development
of the consumers’ associations and consulting
them in the process of decision taking.
A real approach of the problems
concerning the consumers’ associations is not
possible without the involvement of the
consumers’ protection, in a more active way, in
promoting and protecting the consumers’ rights.
Only in this way they can contribute substantially
to the improvement of the Romanian economic
climate and to the faster integration in the
European Single Market.