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The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue is a forum of US and EU consumer organisations which develops and agrees joint consumer policy recommendations to the US government and European Union to promote the consumer interest in EU and US policy making.
It is in the context of the New Transatlantic Agenda (launched in 1995) and in particular of the New Economic Partnership (launched in 1998), that the TACD, along with several other transatlantic dialogues, was born. In launching the NTA and the TEP, the governments of the EU and US had for the first time pledged their support to an increased involvement of civil society in transatlantic policy-making. The TACD was launched in September 1998.
The TACD working group on intellectual property was created in 2001. The working group was renamed the TACD Intellectual Property Policy Committee in 2009. The European Co-Chair of the IP Policy Committee is Jill Johnstone of Consumer Focus in the UK. The US co-chair is James Love of Knowledge Ecology International. Meredith Filak is providing staff support to the TACD IP Policy Committee, as does the general TACD Secretariat, including Julian Knott.
