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15/03/2013
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President to send Congress project to strengthen Procons
BRASILIA - President Dilma Rousseff will take another symbolic date, the World Day of Consumer Rights, celebrated on Friday, and launch the National Consumption and Citizenship, in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace. The goal is to transform the consumer into a state policy with the involvement of various ministries.
At the event, Rousseff will sign a decree establishing the National Chamber of Consumer Relations and another that regulates the hiring of ecommerce. It will be sent to Congress a bill to strengthen the network of Procons, tighten supervision on enterprises and increase the fine disregard for consumer rights.
The plan was drawn from a set of proposals advocated by consumer protection agencies and with the participation of various ministries, regulatory agencies and the Central Bank. During the event, Dilma should signal to the release of funds for consumer protection actions. These will come from the federal fund Diffuse Rights, formed by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) gets in agreements with companies. The municipalities complain about the lack of funds to create Procons which, although present in all states, covering only 10% of total cities.
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