{"id":2458,"date":"2013-10-30T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/across_the_atlantic_finding_common_ground_with_consumer_advocates\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T11:39:12","slug":"across_the_atlantic_finding_common_ground_with_consumer_advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/across_the_atlantic_finding_common_ground_with_consumer_advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Atlantic, finding common ground with consumer advocates &#8211; National Consumers League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- content_before_flip_start --><\/p>\n<div><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19900 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sallygsig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sallygsig.jpg 92w, https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sallygsig-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sallygsig-36x36.jpg 36w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/>By Sally Greenberg, NCL Executive Director<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>I\u2019m spending the first part of this week in Brussels with colleagues from across the pond in a meeting with the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD). The TACD is a forum of US and EU consumer organizations which develops and agrees on joint consumer policy recommendations to the US government and European Union to promote the consumer interest in EU and US policy making.<\/div>\n<p><!-- content_before_flip_end --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-19908 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/img_2941.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"198\" \/>The TACD was launched in September 1998, at the end of the inaugural meeting which took place in Washington and gathered more than 60 consumer representatives from the US and the EU.TACD\u2019s objectives are to provide a formal mechanism for EU and US consumer representatives to input to EU and US political negotiations and agreements as well as explore ways of strengthening the EU and US consumer view at the international level. TACD champions the consumer perspective in transatlantic decision making.<\/p>\n<p>It is our mission to ensure that EU\/US policy dialogue promotes consumer welfare on both sides of the Atlantic and is well informed about the implications of policy decisions on consumers. The TACD provides a common voice for EU and US consumer organizations ensuring that key consumer priorities are promoted and advocated within EU-US regulatory and governmental processes, helping to protect health and safety and assure truth and fairness in the marketplace. Through meetings and multi-stakeholder conferences TACD contributes to the exchange of information, dissemination of knowledge and sharing of expertise on key consumer issues in the EU and the US.\u00a0\u2028\u2028TACD works with stakeholders such as the Transatlantic Legislators Dialogue (TLD) and the Transatlantic Business Council (TABC) through the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC), of which TACD is a member of the advisory group, to find areas of commonality and to seek increased consensus. It was a pleasure to be a part of this conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sally Greenberg, NCL Executive Director I\u2019m spending the first part of this week in Brussels with colleagues from across the pond in a meeting with the Trans Atlantic Consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19907,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/19907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}