ORGANIZATION
AND SUPPORT: General Consumer Protection Directorate, Regional
Government of Castilla-La Mancha / Consumer Law Studies Centre,
University of Castilla-La Mancha
DIRECTION: Angel Carrasco (Director, Consumer Law
Studies Centre) / Manuel J. Marín (Professor, Consumer Law
Studies Centre)
Toledo, Faculty of Law, San Pedro Mártir Building, 28-30th
April 2004
PROGRAMM
Wednesday
28th April
Consumer Credit: The “Anticipated” Spanish Implementation
of the Directive, the Future Reform of the Directive and the Grounds
for Controversy.
General
Repports
Almudena
de la Mata
Centre of European Policy Studies / European Credit Research Institute,
Brussels
“Directive on Consumer Credit Proposal. Pro- or Anti- Consumer
Regulation?”
Manuel
J. Marín
Profesor, Consumer Law Studies Centre, Toledo
“Consumer Credit and “Linked” Contracts: Current
Regulation and Reform Proposals”
Panel: Consumer
Credit, Linked Contracts, Financer’s Duty to Inform, Financing
Consumer Credit in Services Contracts.
Chair: Almudena de la Mata
Jorge
Solanas
Studies Department of the ADICAE (Association of Bank and Insurance
Credit Consumers), Member of the Executive Committee of the European
Consumer Association
Piedad
Larrañaga
Consumer ant trade Inspector, Consumer Protection Public Agency,
Basque Country Government
Alejandro Salcedo
Head of the Consumer Protection Service, Consumer Protection Public
Agency, Government of Castilla-La Mancha
Ignacio Pla
Head of the Legal Department in ASNEF (National Association of Financial
Credit Providers)
Thursday
29th April
State, Regional and UE Competences. Coordination or Intermingle
of Administrative Competences. Efficient Cross border Exercise of
Public Functions in Consumer Protection Issues.
General
Reports
Giuseppe
Abbamonte
Deputy Head of Unit Consumer´s Legal, Economic and Other Interest,
European Commission.
“The Proposed EU Regulation on Enforcement Cooperation”
Manuel
Rebollo
Professor of Administrative Law, University of Córdoba
“Administrative Consumer Competences. Territorial Boundaries
y Competences Sharing Guidelines Among Territorial Administrations”
Angel
Carrasco
Director of the Consumer Law Studies Centre, University of Castilla-La
Mancha
“Consumer Administrative Competences and Sectorial Based Competences.
Especially, Information Society and Telecommunications Regulations”
Panel. Exercise
of Public Competentes as a Problem in Cross Border Situations. State
and Regional Administrative Experiences. Especially, the Cases in
Telecommunications Regulations and Products Safety
Chair: Manuel Rebollo
Carlos
Macías
General Director of the Consumer Protection Public Agency, Government
of Castilla-La Mancha
Elía
R. Maldonado
General Director of the Consumer Protection Public Agency, Government
of Andalucía
Juan
Aguado
Representative Head on European Affairs of the OCU (Consumers and
Users Organization). Spanish Representative in the Consumer Committee
of the EU
Enrique
Bel
General Subdirector on Consumer Arbitration Procedures, National
Consumer Institute, Madrid
Friday 30th
Sectorial UE Directives and Framework Directive: the Proposed Directive
on Unfair Commercial Practices
General
Reports
Giuseppe
Abbamonte
“Proposal for the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive”
Oscar
López
Subdirector, Nacional Consumer Institute, Madrid
Spanish Position vis á vis the Proponed Framework Directive
Panel: Unfair Commercial Practices, Commercial Marketing Mechanisms,
Open Clauses and the Benefices of a Framework Regulation
Chair: Oscar López
Victoria
Villamar
Legal Advisor and Head of the Legal Department, BEUC (BEUC- The
European Consumer´s Organization), Brussels
Eugenio
Ribón
CEACU (Spanish Federation of Housewives, Consumers and Users)
José
María Calvo
General Secretary of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce
INFORMATION
Celebration place:
Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales,
Cobertizo de San Pedro Mártir, s/n
45.071 TOLEDO (SPAIN)
Application: Free of Fees
The inscription
can be formalized in the Consumer Law Studies Centre.
The inscription can be carried out for:
- Via electronic (consumo@uclm.es) ,
-To fill out the form that consists in the page web of Consumer
Law Studies Centre.
Postal
address is:
Vicerrectorado del Campus de Toledo
Palacio Cardenal Lorenzana
C/Cardenal Lorenzana, 1
45.071 TOLEDO
Phone number: 925-268800, extension 5018
Web: www.uclm.es/cesco
Inscription term: 1st March 2004 until 31st March 2004
The number of assistants is limited.
Accommodation in Toledo
The Consumer Law Studies Centre will facilitate information about
the accommodation. However, the accommodation expenses will be paid
by the assistants.