On
the 7th of May 2002, the European Commission adopted a new
consumer policy strategy specifying its overall political approach for the
five year period, 2002-2006. As one can clearly identify, the European
Institutions are coordinating and maximizing all their efforts to promote
the interests of consumers, because after all, they are regarded as the
key elements of the sustainable growth of the European legal and political
framework.
The
Consumer Policy Strategy has three key objectives:
1)
A high common level of consumer protection.
2)
Effective enforcement of consumer protection rules.
3)
Proper involvement of consumer organizations in EU policies.
For
such objectives to be attained to the full, consumers themselves must have
an opportunity to contribute for the development of policies that affect
them. Consumers and their representatives should have the capacity and
resources to promote their interests on a similar footing as other
stakeholders.
Our
aim is to develop a project, which would help European organizations which
are operating on a trans-national and international level in the field of
consumer protection in order to monitor, share, evaluate and involve the
European consumers in the constant development of the common market by
providing a qualitative level of food and health safety in their
environment. We will give particular importance to the newly ten European
Member States and the other states which are in the process of joining the
European Union.
