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144848
Tue, 10/05/2010 - 10:26
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ASEAN COMMITTEE CAPABLE OF PROTECTING 580 MILLION CONSUMERS
KUCHING (Sarawak, Malaysia) Oct 4 (Bernama) -- Malaysia, as Asean Committee
on Consumers Protection (ACCP) chairman, is confident of a more systematic
cooperation for the protection of 580 million consumers in the region.
This applied not only to each member nation, but also intra-Asean, said
Domestic Trade Cooperatives and Consumerism Deputy Minister Rohani Abdul Karim.
She said, as each Asean member country had different laws for consumerism,
it was difficult to protect the rights of the consumers, especially with the
current cross-border trading.
"Some Asean nations do not have any specific law to protect the rights of
their consumers and this definitely will cause problems, in the event of any
claims, especially those involving foreigners," Rohani told reporters after
officiating the 3rd ACCP meeting here Monday.
As a step to strengthening ACCP, she said the main topics for discussion at
its two-day meeting, beginning Monday, were the setting up of the Committee on
Across the Border Compensation, Training and Teaching of Consumer Law Committee
and the Committee on Exchange of Information to Warn Consumers.
According to the deputy minister, the non-uniformity in enforcing the law
and the standard of consumer protection among Asean nations had made it
difficult to take any action on the law on consumerism, if it involved two
different countries.
"With ACCP, we are confident of educating consumers in Asean and inform them
of their rights," she said.
She said ACCP would also issue more pamphlets on consumerism in strategic
areas, especially at airports, hotels and tourist attraction spots in Asean
countries, to inform foreign consumers on what action could be taken when faced
with consumer-related problems.
ACCP, formed at the 41st Asean Economic Ministers' Meeting in Bangkok in
August last year, was previously known as Coordination Committee on Asean
Protection.
The current third meeting is attended by eight Asean-member countries. The
Philippines and Myanmar did not attend.
on Consumers Protection (ACCP) chairman, is confident of a more systematic
cooperation for the protection of 580 million consumers in the region.
This applied not only to each member nation, but also intra-Asean, said
Domestic Trade Cooperatives and Consumerism Deputy Minister Rohani Abdul Karim.
She said, as each Asean member country had different laws for consumerism,
it was difficult to protect the rights of the consumers, especially with the
current cross-border trading.
"Some Asean nations do not have any specific law to protect the rights of
their consumers and this definitely will cause problems, in the event of any
claims, especially those involving foreigners," Rohani told reporters after
officiating the 3rd ACCP meeting here Monday.
As a step to strengthening ACCP, she said the main topics for discussion at
its two-day meeting, beginning Monday, were the setting up of the Committee on
Across the Border Compensation, Training and Teaching of Consumer Law Committee
and the Committee on Exchange of Information to Warn Consumers.
According to the deputy minister, the non-uniformity in enforcing the law
and the standard of consumer protection among Asean nations had made it
difficult to take any action on the law on consumerism, if it involved two
different countries.
"With ACCP, we are confident of educating consumers in Asean and inform them
of their rights," she said.
She said ACCP would also issue more pamphlets on consumerism in strategic
areas, especially at airports, hotels and tourist attraction spots in Asean
countries, to inform foreign consumers on what action could be taken when faced
with consumer-related problems.
ACCP, formed at the 41st Asean Economic Ministers' Meeting in Bangkok in
August last year, was previously known as Coordination Committee on Asean
Protection.
The current third meeting is attended by eight Asean-member countries. The
Philippines and Myanmar did not attend.
