Commissioner Reynders in the US for high-level meetings on consumer protection

Today, Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, will travel to Orlando, in the United States, to participate in the 2023 Annual Symposium of the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO). The ICPHSO is the forum that brings together international stakeholders to advance consumer product safety on a global basis and to promote safer consumer products around the world. This year will mark the 30th anniversary since the creation of the ICPHSO.

In the margins of the symposium, Commissioner Reynders will attend a series of high-level meetings with consumer protection experts, including the Chair of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, to take stock of cooperation under the informal EU-US consumer product safety dialogue. Commissioner Reynders will also meet with Health-Canada Director General for Consumer Safety, Dennis Price, to discuss cooperation on consumer product safety under the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), as well as with representatives from the OECD to enhance global cooperation on consumer protection. In the afternoon, Commissioner Reynders will take part in a high-level panel during the 2023 Annual Symposium of the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO).

On Thursday, 23 February, Commissioner Reynders will participate in a roundtable discussion with members of the European Florida consular general network, as well as addressing the European-American Chamber of Commerce on the European Commission’s work on due diligence and data protection. In the afternoon, he will give a lecture to students at the University of Miami Law School about the EU’s action to promote fundamental rights in policy-making, inside and outside of the EU.