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Seminar on Damages Repair for Defective Products / Sixth Technical Advisory Group Meeting - September 15 to 17, 2011, Bogota, Colombia

Within the framework of the Consumer Safety and Health Network (CSHN) for the Americas, on November 15th and 16th, 2011, the Seminar on Damages Repair for Defective Products will be held in Bogota, Colombia. This seminar is being organized by the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce of Colombia and the Department of Social Development and Employment of the Organization of American States, who is the body in charge or coordinating the CSHN in alliance with PAHO. In addition, the Technical Advisory Group of the Network will take advantage of this opportunity and gather for a session on November 17th.

The purpose of the seminar is to further develop the dialogue and exchange of experiences on new perspectives for promoting consumer safety and health protection. The seminar aims, specifically, to study the evolution of damages repair regimes for defective products and get acquainted with the inter-agency coordination experiences among the various agencies with expertise in market surveillance for consumer product safety, particularly, health, consumer protection and metrology agencies.
 

• Draft Agenda

• Article on the Event

• Article in El Universo Newspaper about the Event (Spanish only)

Event Presentations

• Alejandro Giraldo, Delegated Superintendent for Consumer Protection and Metrology

• Laura Nataly Zopo, Advisor of the Industry and Commerce Superintendent

• Ruben Duran, Consumer Federal Attorney Office, Mexico

• Roberta Telles, Consumer Product Safety Commission, United States

• Alfons Conesa i Badiella, Catalan Consumer Agency, Spain

• Dolsie Allen, Consumer Affairs Commission, Jamaica

• Ricardo Morishita Wada, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil

• Ricardo Maguiña Pardo, COMPAL II, UNCTAD

• Pedro Munar Cadena, Supreme Court, Colombia

• Neilton Araújo de Oliveira, National Health Surveillance Agency, Brazil

• Erickson Molina, INDECOPI, Peru

• Yvelia Batista, National Institute for the Protection of Consumer Rights, Dominican Repunlic

• José Amores, Authorities for Consumer Protection and Competition, Panama

• Kattia Chávez, National Consumer Advocacy Directorate, Costa Rica

Proposal for the Inclusion of Civil Society to the CSHN

• Antonino Serra, Consumers International (Spanish only)