The DTI publishes its strategy for the next year and lists its key priorities.
20 May 1999
United Kingdom
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The following priorities are included in the DTI Strategic Framework for 1999/2000:
- Develop a new consumer strategy focused on well informed consumers and on putting rogue traders out of business. (A Consumer Strategy White Paper is to be published in July 1999).
- Secure Royal Assent for the Electronic Commerce Bill, implement its provisions and negotiate an E-Commerce Directive.
- Create a fair and effective legal and regulatory framework.
- Help ensure that the proper interests of businesses and consumers are taken into account in the development and implementation of new regulations.
- Carry out reviews of the existing legislative and regulatory framework, including a review of company and insolvency law.
This Strategic Framework, when read in conjunction with the Consumer Affairs Strategy comments made by Stephen Byers recently, indicate that consumers are being put at the very heart of DTI’s policy thinking.
