Seminar on Consumers Rights

Beginning tomorrow, January 24, at 6.30 pm, in the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (Luso-International Bank Building, 18th floor) is the Seminar on “Consumer Rights: New Developments in Europe”. Conducted by Prof. Dr. Ewoud Hondius, Professor of Civil Law of the Faculty of Law at the University of Utrecht, Holland, this training course is part of the Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao. The seminar is organised by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre and will take place in the course of a week until the next 28 January. During the five sessions, more than three dozens of local legal advisors will follow the speaker’s interventions on “Consumer Law and Competition Law”, “Unfair Trade Practices and Contract Terms”, “Product Liability and Medical Liability”, “Consumer Sales and Services”, and “Consumer Redress”. The Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, which incorporates this seminar, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” and is in the last part of its third year, taking place until the beginning of the year 2006. The total budget for the programme is of 1.980.000 euros, shared in equal parts by the European Union and Macao. The co-ordination of the Co-operation Programme is at the responsibility of the International Law Office, being the organization of the pertaining actions ensured by several other entities of the MSAR’s Government, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services and the Institute of European Studies, other than the International Law Office itself.