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5TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
TRANSATLANTIC CONSUMER DIALOGUE
October 28-30, 2002, Washington, D.C.
GENERAL AGENDA
Monday 28 October
Venue: Radisson Barcelo Hotel (all meetings closed with
TACD members ONLY)
TACD Members meetings
Venue: Mansion on O St, 2020 O St NW
18.30: TACD official reception (open to all meeting participants)
Tuesday 29 October
Venue: US State Department (all meetings with government
officials)
09.00 - 09.45: Welcome, and Opening Plenary Session
Chair: Rhoda Karpatkin, President Emeritus of Consumers
Union, member of TACD US Steering Committee
Speakers:
Overview of TEP and transatlantic relations
Alan Larson, US Under Secretary for Economic, Business and
Agricultural Affairs
Ulrik Federspiel, Danish Ambassador to the United States
Gérard Depayre, Deputy Head of the European Commission
Delegation to the United States
Our future expectations of Dialogue
Felix Cohen, Consumentenbond and member of TACD EU Steering
Committee
Questions and discussion
09.45 - 10.30: TACD 2002 Report Card
Rhoda Karpatkin, President Emeritus of Consumers Union,
member of TACD US Steering Committee
Response from Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of Economic and Business Affairs
Gérard Depayre, Deputy Head of the European Commission
Delegation to the United States
Questions and discussion
10.30 - 11.00: Presentation and discussion on Internet Privacy
and Security
Chair: Jim Murray, Director of BEUC and member of TACD EU
Steering Committee
Timothy Muris, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission
Questions and discussion
11.00 - 11.15: Coffee
11.15 - 12.30: Workshop Plenary Session on Liberalisation of
Trade in Services
TACD has recommended that "the right of governments to provide
and regulate basic services in the consumer interest should be
broadly asserted in a new article included in the body of the
WTO GATS agreement." TACD has invited experts who closely
follow these WTO negotiations to speak about the potential of
a new GATS agreement to impact the domestic regulation of a number
of services sectors.
Chair: Benedicte Federspiel, Danish Consumer Council and
EU Steering Committee
Speakers:
Professor David Price, Health Policy and Health Services
Research Unit, School of Public Policy, University College London
Professor Patricia Arnold, Professor of Accounting and Finance,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Business School
David Waskow, Attorney, Friends of the Earth
Responses will be invited from both governments and general
discussion will follow
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
13.30 - 17.00: Working Groups meetings
Food Working Group
Special Group on Intellectual Property
Venue: Delegation of the European Commission to the United
States, 2300 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037
17.30: Official Reception hosted by Delegation
of the European Commission to the United States
Wednesday 30 October
Venue: US State Department (all meetings with government
officials)
09.00 - 12.30: Working Group meetings
Trade Working Group
E-commerce Working Group
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
13.30 - 14.15: Information session on the domestic policy priorities
of US and EU consumer movement at national levels
Chair: Anna Bartolini, Representative of Italian Consumer
Groups and EU Steering Committee
- Brief overview by Consumers International (TACD secretariat),
followed by presentations by two US (Consumers Union and Public
Citizen) and two EU consumer groups (CNCU/Italy and Consumentenbond/Netherlands)
and the federation/umbrella groups Consumer Federation of America,
European Consumers Association (BEUC) and US PIRG.
- Presenters: Anna Fielder, Jim Guest, Joan Claybrook, Anna
Bartolini, Felix Cohen, Travis Plunkett, Jim Murray and Ed Mierzwinski.
14.15 - 15.45: Plenary workshop on Intellectual Property Rights:
Why does it matter to the consumer?
Why do Intellectual Property Rights matter to the consumer? This
workshop will look at three different areas that are relevant
to today's consumer. The panel will look at WTO rules on parallel
trade and compulsory licensing in the context of Levi jeans and
other fashion goods, pharmaceuticals, and music and other copyrighted
goods. The WTO rules apply equally to each of these goods, but
should they?
Chair: Jean Ann Fox, Consumer Federation of America and
US Steering Committee
Michelle Childs, UK Consumers Association: Trademark goods
Rachel Cohen, MSF: Pharmaceuticals
Professor Peter Jaszi: American University, Copyright goods
William Craft, Deputy Assistant Secretary for US Trade Policy
and Programs, Acting
Matthew King, First Secretary, Trade, European Commission
Delegation to the United States
15.45 - 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 - 17.00: Closing plenary session
Chair: Ed Mierzwinski, US PIRG and US Steering Committee
Brief reports from the Food, Trade and Electronic Commerce
Working Groups, and Special Group on Intellectual Property
EU official representative: Véronique Arnault, Head
of Unit, DG Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission
US official representative: Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, State Department
Summing up and closing remarks by Chair
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