Consumer protection plans to be publicised.Dubai: Disgruntled dis·grun·tle tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles To make discontented. [dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see consumers in the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. have become all too accustomed to familiar practices of unexpected price increases, surly service, and that niggling feeling of being "ripped off". Despite these, the UAE remains one of the major countries in the region to have implemented an active consumer protection policy. The majority of residents, however, remain unaware of the initiatives under way, providing the backdrop for the fourth Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). ) Consumer Protection Day held this week. The Ministry of Finance has also launched a month-long campaign to create public awareness of the UAE's consumer protection laws consumer protection laws n. almost all states and the federal government have enacted laws and set up agencies to protect the consumer (the retail purchasers of goods and services) from inferior, adulterated, hazardous and deceptively advertised products, and . An online business dictionary, BNET BNET Battle.net (Blizzard Entertainment) bnet Bungie.net BNET Bentley Intranet BNET Billy Noguera Entertainment Group Inc. BNET Britain-Nigeria Educational Trust Business Dictionary, describes consumer protection as: "The safeguarding of consumer interests in terms of quality, price, and safety, usually within a statutory framework. The growing purchasing power of consumers and the rise in consumerism ... led to increased demands for protection against unsafe goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. and unscrupulous trading practices." Legislation on consumer protection has existed in the UAE since 2006, but it has proved challenging to communicate this and other initiatives, such as a consumer hotline, to the public at large. "The UAE is much better placed regionally in terms of legislation to protect consumers," says Himanshu Vashishtha, Managing Director for the UAE at AC Nielsen, a global provider of research and marketing information. "However, ... work is needed is in educating the public to what is available," he continued. According to Vashishtha, once customers in the country are aware of what rights and instruments are available to them, they will use them. "Consumers in the UAE are very assertive of their rights," said Vashishtha. Last year, the first Arab Consumer and Brand Forum was held in Jeddah, which lamented region-wide failures on consumer protection and protecting business owners from the particularly high costs associated with counterfeit items. According to some estimates the GCC loses around $17 billion (Dh62.39 billion) to counterfeiting a year. Al Nisr Publishing Al Nisr Publishing is a company based in Dubai, UAE. The company is a part of Al Tayer Group. It was established in 1985 by Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Abdullah Al Rostamani and Juma Al Majid. It employs 1,050 people and has branches in Manilla, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. LLC 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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