Consumer Advisory Board
The Consumer Advisory Board is an interdisciplinary body created to analyze consumer issues and consumer protection, encourage citizen participation and the exercising of their rights and propose programs and public actions to encourage the exchange of ideas between the various stakeholders in consumer relations. The Federal Consumer Attorney serves as President; the General Coordinator of Education and Dissemination, as the technical secretary. Other individuals involved have recognized prestige and experience; or are representatives of civil society organizations and associations; or represent the Ministry of Economy.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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