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Finalisation of COMPAL II activities in El Salvador


24 - 25 February 2015
San Salvador
, El Salvador

As the March 2015 launch of COMPAL III is approaching, UNCTAD will complete all activities agreed in the last Annual Conference of COMPAL II together with the Project Coordinator of El Salvador.

COMPAL II will be officially closed by March 2015, when the new phase of COMPAL is launched in Peru on 6 March 2015. Some outstanding activities in key Central American beneficiary countries should be implemented before March 2015. In this regard, the project coordinator of El Salvador has agreed to undertake a number of activities in February 2015.

UNCTAD, together with GAE members, will be ensuring that the activities finalised under the national component of Costa Rica are sustainable and can be replicated in a regional perspective through the new regional Programme COMPAL III.

Between 24 and 25 February 2015 in San Salvador, El Salvador, the launch of the Consumer Protection Advocacy plan with the media, as well as a bilateral consultations with the "Defensoria del Consumidor" related to the current developments of the Review of the UN Guidelines on Consumer Protection and its impact on Salvadorian Consumer Protection regulations.

Overall, all COMPAL II activities should be successfully completed. In particular, UNCTAD will be focusing essentially on: • In El Salvador, the launch of the Radio Campaign of Consumer Rights should be able to sustain by the Consumer Protection Authority (Defensoria del Consumidor) assuming that COMPAL Regional will not have a national component to follow-up on this particular regard.

UNCTAD expert: • Mr Pierre Horna, COMPAL Global Coordinator and Legal Affairs Officer of the Competition and Consumer Policies Branch

GAE Members: • Mr. Edgar Odio, Ex-Commisioner of the Costa Rican Competition Authority • Mr. Gustavo Valbuena, Ex-Head of the Colombian Competition and Consumer Protection Authority (SIC)

Participants: • Superintendence of Competition (SC) • Defensoria del Consumidor (DC)

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Co-organizer(s):
Defensoría del Consumidor of El Salvador
Sponsor / funding:
National component of El Salvador of the COMPAL II funds

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Pierre Horna
Legal Affairs Officer/ COMPAL GLOBAL Coordinator
UNCTAD
T: +41 225480728
E: pierre.horna@unctad.org