8th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
TRANSATLANTIC CONSUMER DIALOGUE

March 10-13, 2007, Brussels

Monday March 12

09.00 – 10.30:   Welcome, and Opening Session (open to media)
The state of EU-U.S. economic relations, transatlantic regulatory cooperation and trade policy, and the perspective of EU and U.S. consumer organisations.

• Meglena Kuneva, European Commissioner for Consumer Protection
• C. Boyden Gray, U.S. Ambassador to the EU
• Ed Mierzwinski, US Public Interest Research Group, as TACD respondent to the keynote addresses
• Discussion, questions and comments from the floor
  
  
• Rhoda Karpatkin, Consumers Union: TACD's 2010 Vision - what emerging issues will be key consumer issues in transatlantic economic relations by 2010?
• Discussion, questions and comments from the floor

10.30 – 10.50   Break

10.50 – 13.20:   Working Group meetings (closed meetings, discussions non-attributable)

13.20 – 14.30:  Lunch

14.30 – 17.00:  Working Group meetings (closed meetings, discussions non-attributable)

17.00 – 17.10   Break

17.10 – 17.20:   Intervention by Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, Executive Director, European Food Safety Authority
EFSA's approach to food safety and risk assessment, and cooperation with U.S. Government agencies dealing with the same issues.

17.20 – 18.00:   TACD's role going forward (open to media)
Considering the day's discussions, a look forward to how consumer issues should be tackled in the transatlantic economic relationship.