12 pm - 4 pm

Steering Committee and Working Group Chairs meetings

5 pm - 7 pm

Welcome Reception

Hosted by the U.S. State Department

Venue: Treaty Room, 2201 C Street NW (C Street diplomatic entrance)

EU delegates, please bring passport; US participants, please bring photo ID

7:30 am

Registration

Opening Plenary: How Governments Can Address Consumer Concerns on the Trade Agenda

Chair: Felix Cohen, Consumentenbond (Netherlands)

Rhoda Karpatkin, Consumer’s Union (US), TACD Steering Committee

David Byrne, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection

Dan Glickman, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Questions and discussion

Coffee

State of the Transatlantic Consumer Movement

Jean-Ann Fox, Consumer Federation of America, TACD Steering Committee

Jim Murray, European Consumers Association, TACD Steering Committee

Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen (US)

Questions and discussion

TEP and Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRAs)

Cathy Novelli, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative

Mauro Petriccione, Head of Unit, DG Trade, European Commission

Questions and discussion

A Congressman’s Perspective on Consumer Concerns in the Trade Agenda

David Bonior, Minority Whip, Member of Congress, Michigan

Buffet Lunch

Parallel Working Groups

Food Working Group

(TACD members only)

Co-Chairs: Bruce Silverglade, Centre for Science in the Public Interest (U.S.) and Sue Davies, Consumers’ Association (U.K.)

Electronic Commerce Working Group

(Government officials invited)

Co-Chairs: Jamie Love, Consumer Project on Technology (U.S.) and Dirk Klasen, Arbeitsgemeinshaft der Verbraucherverbande (Germany)

Trade Working Group

(Government officials invited)

Co-Chairs: Niel Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (U.S.) and Ann Davison, European Research into Consumer Affairs (U.K.)

Coffee

Parallel Working Groups Continue

End of Session

Reception

Hosted by the TACD

Venue: The Radisson-Barcello Hotel, 2121 P Street NW

Dinner

Hosted by the TACD

Venue: The Radisson-Barcello Hotel, 2121 P Street NW

Dinner speakers, The Future of Globalisation:

Alan Larson, U.S. Undersecretary of State for economic, business and agricultural affairs

Joao Rocha Paris, Ambassador of Portugal to the US (TBC)

Sheila McKechnie, Consumers’ Association U.K.

9:00 am

Parallel Working Groups

(TACD members only)

Food Working Group

Co-Chairs: Bruce Silverglade, Centre for Science in the Public Interest (U.S.) and Sue Davies, Consumers’ Association (U.K.)

Electronic Commerce Working Group

Co-Chairs: Jamie Love, Consumer Project on Technology (U.S.) and Dirk Klasen, Arbeitsgemeinshaft der Verbraucherverbande (Germany)

Trade Working Group

Co-Chairs: Niel Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (U.S.) and Ann Davison, European Research into Consumer Affairs (U.K.)

11:00 am

Coffee

11:20 am

Parallel Working Groups Continue

12:30 pm

Working Lunch: Looking Ahead - How Government and Consumer Groups Can Work Together

Susan G. Esserman, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative

John Richardson, Acting Ambassador of the EU to the U.S.

2:00 pm

Parallel Working Groups

Food Working Group

(Open to government officials)

Co-Chairs: Bruce Silverglade, Centre for Science in the Public Interest (U.S.) and Sue Davies, Consumers’ Association (U.K.)

Electronic Commerce Working Group

(TACD members only)

Co-Chairs: Jamie Love, Consumer Project on Technology (U.S.) and Dirk Klasen, Arbeitsgemeinshaft der Verbraucherverbande (Germany)

Trade Working Group

(TACD members only)

Co-Chairs: Niel Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (U.S.) and Ann Davison, European Research into Consumer Affairs (U.K.)

3:30 pm

Coffee

3:50 pm

Parallel Working Groups Continue

5:30 pm

End of Session

6:30 pm

Reception

Hosted by the European Delegation

Venue: Press Conference Room, Ground floor, 2300 M Street, NW

9:00 am

10:40 am

Final Plenary: Working Group Reports and Recommendations

Chair: Marie José Nicoli, UFC-Que Choisir (France)

Mozelle W Thompson, Commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission (TBC)

11:00 am

Coffee

11:20 am

Finding a common ground

Discussion moderator: Ed Mierzwinski, Public Interest Reserch Group (US),TACD Steering Committee

Panel:

TACD Working Group Chairs

EU and U.S. Heads of Delegations for food safety, e-commerce and trade

Closing remarks

Benedicte Federspiel, Danish Consumer Council, TACD Steering Committee

12:30 pm

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