October 16, 2012 at 15.30 at the Department of Civil and Process of the Law Institute of the NAU it was held scientific seminar on "Consumer Protection (Comparative Study)". The relevance of the event is caused by the increasing role of the institute of consumer protection in public life.

Every citizen is a consumer and every day, coming in a variety of legal deals, understands the need for their reliable regulation and, if necessary, the protection of rights. Although national legislation on consumer protection is one of the most loyal in Europe, Ukrainian consumers do not always know how to use it with benefit for themselves. Respectively, the aim of this seminar was to discuss the basic mechanisms of consumer protection and presentation of proposals for its improvement.
During the discussion there were raised the question of the guaranties of consumer rights under European and national legislation, the question of the protection of consumer rights in advertising and on the television and the specific of consumer protection in the sphere of intellectual property and in the sale contracts. The questions of information support of consumer rights according to the norms of applicable legislation raised a lively discussion.
During the workshop it was concluded that the problem of consumer protection has long ago gained international importance and is closely related to strengthening of national security and the protection of the rights of its citizens to quality and safe products and services, as well as information about them. Therefore, this subject requires from the state targeted actions to improve the system of protection of fundamental rights in this field.
To the work of the scientific-practical seminar were involved representatives of the Direction of Law Institute of National Aviation University, Scientific-research Centre, lecturers of the department, practitioners, representatives form other universities. Active participation in the scientific meeting took: attorney, Ph.D., professor, professor of department of theory and management of prosecutor's office activity of National Academy of Prosecutors of Ukraine Shumsky P.V., lawyer, Ph.D., associate professor, associate professor of department of civil and labor law of Kyiv National Economic University Vavzhenchuk S.J., Ph.D., associate professor of department of civil disciplines of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts Dzyubenko O.L., Ph.D., senior lecturer of  department of information systems and technologies of Training-scientific Institute of information security of National Academy of Security Service of Ukraine Tikhomirov O.O., Ph.D., executive director of the Association of Judges of Ukraine Konizhai R.O., patent attorney of Ukraine, head of department of research of industrial property of the Center of Intellectual Property and Transfer of Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Khomenko I.I. and graduate civil specialists.

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