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27 May 2008 12:48 Final annual monitoring meeting of COMPAL will be held in July back-to-back to the IGE on Competition Law and Policy w 26 May 2008 16:14 The COMPAL Programme will participate in the Central American Competition Group 6 May 2008 11:43 COMPAL was successfully presented in Ghana at UNCTAD XII 2 April 2008 12:25 Findings of the meeting held in Bern, 11 Feb 2008 17 November 2007 11:28 Results of the UNCTAD mission held in La Paz, Bolivia 2 -4 October 2007 17 November 2007 11:20 Results of the II Mid-Term Review Meeting on COMPAL Activities 15 July 2007 22:22 UNCTAD to host the II Mid-term review meeting of the COMPAL Programme 6 June 2007 18:07 Results of the UNCTAD meeting with donors about the future of COMPAL 29 March 2007 19:17 COMPAL reports on major achievements in 2006 20 March 2007 11:11 UNCTAD reports on the COMPAL events held in Costa Rica 8 January 2007 10:27 The COMPAL PMC and donor agree to organise the second annual monitoring of COMPAL in March 2007 11 June 2006 23:27 Results of the Mid-term review meeting held in San Salvador, 13 July 2006 24 January 2006 10:37 Seminar in Lima to present finding of sectoral in-depth studies from activity P.1.1. 24 January 2006 10:34 Annual Meetings to take place in Managua and La Paz 27 June 2005 16:13 Launching Activity P.1.3 to support INDECOPI's Unit for the Promotion of Competition and Innovation This activity seeks to promote competition and technological innovation in Peru... 27 June 2005 16:08 Launching activity B.1.2 with the study of the impact of imports of used clothing This activity will try to identify... 11 June 2005 16:00 Launching Activity P.1.4 to revise the financial mechanisms of competition bodies This activity involves an ambitious objective on the part of INDECOPI... 6 June 2005 16:00 Launching Activity N.2.1 to build up a strategy to incorporate consumer protection issues into the curricula of primary and secondary schools and raise awareness of these issues through the media A strategy will be designed for the duration of the project to be implemented in Nicaragua... 31 May 2005 16:00 Launching Activity CR.2.2 to prepare leaflets that describe the means by which consumer protection policy is implemented in Costa Rica. The aim of this activity, to be implemented in Costa Rica, is the promotion of a consumer culture... 28 May 2005 16:00 Launching Activity CR.1.5.1 to prepare a report on the strengths and weaknesses of the Law on Competition in Costa Rica This activity seeks to prepare a diagnosis of current Costa Rican legislation and ... 12 May 2005 16:00 Launching activity B.1.1, dealing with the preparation of a brochure to disseminate the role of SIRESE | to be implemented in Bolivia The main objective of this activity is to disseminate the activities, functions and responsibilities ... 12 May 2005 08:00 Launching Activity ES.2.2 with the organisation of 3 workshops to sensitize national legislators and sectors in El Salvador | first workshop to be held in San Salvador on 12 May 2005 The Presidential Commission for Consumer Protection in El Salvador as national coordinator ... 25 April 2005 14:00 Launching Activity P.1.1, with the study on institutions providing health service in Peru | to be implemented in Peru This activity will be carried out jointly with INDECOPI, and will result in studies that will analyse ... 15 April 2005 16:30 Competition and Consumer Protection Policies in Latin America: New UNCTAD Publication | UNCTAD/PRESS/IN/2005/015 A new UNCTAD publication highlights the experiences of five Latin American countries in strengthening their competition and consumer protection policies, widely considered to be a key determinant of economic efficiency and consumer welfare. 1 April 2005 15:30 Launching Activity ES.1.1 with the study of surface transport in El Salvador Activity ES.1.1 in El Salvador aims at undertaking a detailed analysis ... 1 April 2005 14:00 Launching Activity B.1.5, referring to the Internships Programme in COMCO | to be implemented in Bolivia In Bolivia, this activity will take place over the year 2005. Two officials of SIRESE and a third by an official from the Ministry of Economic Development will participate in this activity. 21 March 2005 17:30 Launching Activity N.1.1.1 with the study of flour and cooking oil | to be implemented in Nicaragua Activity N.1.1.1, which is to be implemented in Nicaragua over the 3-year duration period of the COMPAL Programme, ... 20 January 2005 17:00 Signing of five MOUs with beneficiary countries, SECO and UNCTAD December 2004 to January 2005 10 November 2004 14:30 UNCTAD, Switzerland to Strengthen Competition and Consumer Institutions, Policy-Making in Latin America | UNCTAD/PRESS/IN/2004/023 UNCTAD and Switzerland have signed an agreement to launch a joint programme on strengthening institutions and capacities in the area of competition and consumer policies in Latin America (COMPAL).