The Review of the Consumer Acquis and the Common Frame of Reference - progress, key issues, perspectives

On 25-26 May 2006, the Austrian Council Presidency hosted a conference in Vienna on the theme of “The Review of the Consumer Acquis and the Common Frame of Reference progress, key issues, perspectives", with financing of the European Commission, Directorate General Health and Consumer Protection.

The event was the second European Discussion Forum, following the first Discussion Forum in London of 26 September 2005. The conference brought together some 180 participants: experts from the CFR-net and from Member States, senior representatives from business and consumer side as well as Members of the European Parliament.

Working sessions concentrated on how the CFR can usefully contribute to the current review of the consumer acquis as well as on current relevant issues of the CFR work and the review of the acquis.

Agenda

Speeches

• Welcome address on behalf of Karin Gastinger, Austrian Federal Minister of Justice
• Greeting address on behalf of Markos Kyprianou, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection
• Diana Wallis, Member of the European Parliament - Opening speech

Contributions from panellists

• Giuseppe Abbamonte, European Commission, Directorate General Health and Consumer Protection
• Tiina Astola, Ministry of Justice of Finland
• Paul Hobeck, UNICE
• Karl-Heinz Oehler, Federal Ministry of Justice of Germany
• Yvan Balensi, French Banking Federation
• Martin Fricke, CEA – European Federation of National Insurance Associations
• Rudolf Kaindl, Conference of Notaries of the European Union
• Paul Keane, Law Society of Ireland
• Jürgen Schmidt-Räntsch, Judge at the German Federal Court of Justice
• Professor Hans Schulte-Nölke, Bielefeld University

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