Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Asociatia pentru Protectia Consumatorilor din Romania |
| Acronym: |
APC Romania
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| Legal status: |
NGO NonProfit
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| Website address: |
http://www.apc-romania.ro
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Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Costel Stanciu
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| Position: |
Presedinte |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Emil Bojin
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| Position: |
Member of the Directing Board |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
2 Licurici
Bucuresti 030894
ROMANIA
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| Telephone number: |
(+4021) 3110243 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Potrivit statutului asociaţiei, principalele obiective ale asociaţiei sunt:
* apărarea, promovarea şi reprezentarea prin toate mijloacele legale a drepturilor şi intereselor consumatorilor în raporturile cu agenţii economici şi instituţiile statului
* educare,consilierea şi informarea consumatorilor prin acţiuni proprii, publicaţii, studii de piaţă şi orice alte mijloace de informare în masă;
* analizarea şi rezolvarea sesizărilor formulate de consumatori, prin intermediul forţelor proprii ale asociaţiei sau prin organele abilitate ale statului;
* dezvoltarea parteneriatului internaţional în domeniul protecţiei consumatorilor;
* colaborarea cu organizaţii profesionale şi cu instituţii abilitate guvernamentale şi neguvernamentale, cu atribuţii în domeniul protecţiei consumatorilor, în vederea respectării intereselor consumatorilor;
* îmbunătăţirea cadrului legislativ general de protecţie a consumatorilor, prin solicitări adresate autorităţilor, prin participarea la elaborarea standardelor sau a specificaţiilor ce definesc bunurile de consum şi serviciile;
* desfăşurarea de activităţi publicistice şi editoriale;
* formare profesională a adulţilor în domeniul protecţiei consumatorilor;
* conştientizarea prin acţiuni proprii a agenţilor economici asupra drepturilor şi intereselor consumatorilor.
În cei 19 ani de activitate, APC – România, prin activităţile desfăşurate, a adus o contribuţie semnificativă la apărarea şi promovarea drepturilor consumatorilor, la îmbunătăţirea nivelului de informare şi educare a consumatorilor, precum şi la consolidarea mişcării consumatoriste din România.
The Romanian Association for Consumers’ Protection is a nongovernmental organization, apolitical and nonprofit and has been founded in 1990. Its main objective is the protection, promotion and representation, by all legal ways, of consumers’ rights and interests in relationship with the economic operators and state institutions.
At national level the Romanian Association for Consumers’ Protection was recognized through HG no. 1106/2005 as a public utility organization.
APC Romania is a member of Consumers International, BEUC and TACD (Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue).
According to the association’s statute, the main objectives of the association are:
• protection, promotion and representation by all legal ways of consumers’ rights and interests in relationship with the economic operators and state institutions;
• educate, give advice and inform consumers by personal actions, publications, market research and any other ways of mass informing;
• analyzing and solving the complaints made by consumers, through the association own ways or through the state authorities;
• international partnership development in the consumer’s protection domain;
• collaboration with professional organizations and with governmental and nongovernmental institutions, that have tasks in consumer’s protection domain, in order to assure the respect of consumers’ rights;
• improving the general legislative framework for consumer’s protection, through requirements addressed to the authorities, by participation in the elaboration of standards or specifications that define the services and consumer goods;
• unfolding editorial and journalistic activities;
• adult professional formation in consumer’s protection domain;
• raise the economic operators' consciousness of their personal actions on consumers' rights and interests.
Our main activities are:
• Represent consumers and promote consumers interests.
• Lobby for improvement of level of consumers’ protection, enforcement of consumers’ rights as well as consumers’ information and education;
• Enhance transparency of production methods and quality of products and services offered on the market
• Inform consumers on the main characteristics of the products and services offered on the market
• Give advice to consumers referring to solving specific problem
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
1
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Drepturile consumatorilor
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Consumer Affairs
- Information Society
- Internal Market
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
25,068 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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• Membru asociat, din 1991, al organizaţiei mondiale a consumatorilor – Consumers International
• Membru al Organizaţiei Europeane a Consumatorilor (BEUC)
• Membru al Consumers Citizenship Network
• Membru al E-Consumers Network
• Membru al International Network of Civil Society Organizations in Competition (INCSOC)
• Membru al CEE Network – network of NGOs from Central and Eastern European region operating in the joint fields of consumer an environmental protection
• Membru al ADR Directory
Local
Vice-president of the Consumers’ Consultative Council, Prefecture of Bucharest;.
Member – Socio-economic Commission for the examination and approval of large retail structures implementation from Sector 2, Bucharest;
National
Member – Interministerial Committee on Products and Services Market Surveillance and Consumers’ Protection;
Member – Surveillance Council of the Certification Body for Environment Management Systems – Romanian Rail Authority;
Member – Surveillance Council of the Product Certification Body OCP – Romanian Rail Authority;
Member – Selection Committee for the election of the members of the Arbitrage Committee for litigations on the energy market – National Regulatory Energy Authority;
Member – Larex-Cert Certification Committee, certification body for the conformity of products from the National Centre for Product Testing and Expertise;
Member in Unfair Contract Terms Commission National Authority for Consumers Protection
Member in Products Safety Commission National Authority for Consumers Protection
Member – College for Consultation of Associations and Foundations, consultative body of the Prime-Minister, founded by the Governmental Decision 618/23.06.2005;
Member – Consultative Council of the National Regulatory Authority for Natural Gases
Member – Surveillance Council of the Certification Body for Management Systems from the Romanian Auto Register (RAR-OCS);
Founding Member of Romanian Distribution Committee;
Founding Member of Consumers Committee (COCON) from ASRO (National Standardization Association);
Founding Member of ASRO (National Standardization Association);
Founding Member of National Council of Consumers Associations;
European and International
Member – European Consumer Consultative Group within Health & Consumer Protection Directorate General-European Commission;
Member – The European Consumers Organization (BEUC);
Member – Consumers International
Member of Consumers Citizenship Network
Member of E-Consumers Network
Member of International Network of Civil Society Organizations in Competition (INCSOC)
Member of CEE Network – Network of NGOs from Central and Eastern European region operating in the joint fields of consumer an environmental protection
Member of ADR Directory
Member of Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue – TACD.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2011
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12/2011
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Total budget:
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272,809
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€
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of which public financing:
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272,650
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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€
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- Grants:
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55,725
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€
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- from national sources:
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58,570
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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0
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€
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- alte proiecte :
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158,355
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€
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from other sources: |
159
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€
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- donations:
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0
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€
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- contributions from members:
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159
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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