Sentence examples for consumer councils from inspiring English sources

More decentralised politico-economic participation through self-managerial producer and consumer councils to facilitate participatory decision-making in economic enterprises.

It is perceived to be operating anti-competitively by some European governments and by some consumer councils.

So the Norwegian consumer council took them before the ombudsman", Reyna says.

For instance, a consumer council might be used to represent the views of customers.

Last summer, Forbrukerradet, Norway's consumer council, lodged a complaint with the Consumer Ombudsman against iTunes Music Store Norge, and last month got a ruling in its favour.

"A couple of years ago there was a case by the Norwegian consumer council, in relation to the Playstation," Reyna says.

Based on recommendations from our consumer council, the researchers were flexible around location of assessments [ 19 ].

Three means of engaging clients were felt to be particularly useful: a consumer council; involving clients in formal policy reviews; including clients in the hospital's performance improvement system.

"Tearing things up just isn't as secure as having it shredded up," said Corey Pilz of the Cambridge Consumers' Council, a city agency.

John P. Hughes, the economist for the electricity consumers council, said the markets created a perverse incentive, rewarding power plant owners with ever-higher prices so long as they did not build new capacity to meet growing demand.

These cuts will depress the economy by causing a million job losses and undermining business and consumer confidence". Councils across England will have their funding cut by 28% over the next four years as part of swingeing package of measures to hit town halls announced today.