support institutions, agro-processing firmsand market growth opportunities in a mannerthat would yield sustainable growth of theagricultural sector and the economy at large.

Some lessons were drawn during theseexhibitions. The first lesson was a fact thatFCC need to step up its outreach efforts byway of increasing awareness of Tanzaniansand businesses operating in Tanzania oncompetition issues, consumer rights and re-sponsibilities and counterfeit issues. Sec-ondly, the general public suggested that thereis a need to put a demarcation on “anti-coun-terfeit awareness” efforts in order for FCC tolimit itself to enlightening the public on whatthe anti-counterfeit law (the MerchandiseMarks act, (MMa) 1963, as amended) out-laws; whereas brand awareness and brandprotection activities should be left to brandowners.

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through establishment of modern regulatoryframework and competition oversight bodywith a view to promoting a level playingfield for all players in the market.

During FCC’s participation in the farm-ers’ exhibitions held at nzuguni Grounds inDodoma in august, 2011, FCC show-casedits support to agribusiness undertakings andsensitized the public on various issues, suchas the need for being aware of and adheringto competition issues, consumer rights andresponsibilities, and issues relating to tradein counterfeit goods. The efforts aimed atmaking agribusiness undertakings morecompetitive in the local and internationalmarkets.

This follows from the fact that the agri-cultural Revolution Drive (Kilimo Kwanza),aiming at placing agriculture at the driver’sseat of the economy, seeks to use all market

More Awareness Administered

Through Exhibitions

President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete greeting FCC Officers (from right to left) Chester Kapinga, John Mponela and Martha Kisyombeat the FCC Stall during the 35th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fairs held in Dar es Salaam in July, 2011. To the President’sleft (in grey suit) is FCC’s Director of Research, Mergers and Advocacy, Mr. Allan S. Mlulla.

Tanzanian public had more opportuni-ties of becoming aware of the activities of theFair Competition Commission through exhi-bitions carried out during the Farmers Exhi-bitions in Dodoma in august, 2011, and theExhibitions which took place at Mwalimunyerere Grounds along Kilwa Road in Dares Salaam to commemorate 50th independ-ence anniversary in December, 2011.

The two exhibitions were mainly used asa means to showcase achievements attainedin the concerted national development effortsby both the public and the private. However,for the case of the Fair Competition Com-mission (hereafter referred to as FCC), it wasan opportunity to demonstrate the Govern-ment’s commitment to creation and improve-ment of investment climate in the country

By Staff Reporter

WELCOME dear readers to our combinededition containing the 3rd and the 4th issuesof FCC Online newsletter. The previoustwo quarters had not been quite eventful atFCC, but major milestones were achievedin the course of implementing FCC’s legalmandate vide FCa and MMa.

We are a market support institution thatis poised to promote and protect effectivecompetition in Trade and Commerce andprotect consumers from unfair and mis-leading market conduct. To this end, theCommission has continued applying en-forcement and advocacy mechanisms topromote compliance to the establishing act(FCa).

The Commission held a marathon ofadvocacy awareness Seminars in Mara,Mwanza, Dodoma and Morogoro betweennovember and December, 2011. We havecarried excerpts of these activities in thiscombo issue.

FCC has also had an opportunity of car-rying out two consumer “Training of Train-ers” Sessions in Mwanza and Morogoro inthe same time.

Similarly, the Commission participatedin a number of exhibitions which helped inshowcasing its activities to members of thepublic. The events also helped the Com-mission to understand the public views onhow best to improve its activities.

The Commission was able to distributea number of communication materials dur-ing such exhibitions. We were also able tomake a number of demonstrations with re-gard to counterfeit goods.

FCC was also well represented at inter-national arena, notably in the efforts to-wards developing a national ConsumerProtection Policy. Similarly the Commis-sion was also represented in the third an-nual african Protection Dialogue in abuja,nigeria.

We have carried stories along theselines in our newsletter for readers to under-stand and appreciate the Commission’s ef-forts in carrying out its legally mandatedactivities.

We are committed to continuing bring-ing you updates on FCC activities, achieve-ments and milestones in forthcomingissues. Should you have any issues, con-cerns or comments, we encourage you towrite the same to the editor vide the addresson the left hand-side of this page.

Enjoy the reading of this edition ofFCC newsletter.

Editorial

BoardMembers

Allan S. Mlulla ChairmanSalma Deputy Maghimbi ChairpersonJoshua Msoma SecretaryFrank S. Mdimi Editor

Magdalena Utouh MemberEmmanuel Kaale Member

Assistants

Zuberi KabongeBlandina Kitime

Editorial

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Director GeneralFair Competition Commission, 2nd Floor, Western Wing, Ubungo Plaza, Morogoro Road, P.O.Box 7883, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Tel. +255 22 2461565/6/7, Fax +255 22 2461568, E-mail info@competition.or.tz, Website: www.competition.or.tz

FCC Approves 10 Merger

Applications

ARTICLE/EDITORIAL

THE Fair Competition Commission (FCC)approved without condition a total of 10merger applications out of 14 notified at theCommission between July, 2011 and Decem-ber, 2011.

The approvedmergers were be-tween Puma En-ergy Tanzaniainvestment Ltdand BP TanzaniaLtd; HTT infracoLtd and MiC Tan-zania Ltd, TuscanyRig Leasing and S.a. & Caroil S.a.S. Othermergers were between TP(SD) Ltd andKingdom 5KR-90; africa Online (T) Ltd and

afsat Communications (T) Ltd; WoolworthsHoldings (Mauritius) Ltd and W-Store Com-pany (Tanzania) Ltd; Telcom internationaland africa Online (T) Ltd; Karimjee JivanjeeLtd and Jacaranda Development Ltd; May-ibuye Group Ltd and Blue Financial ServicesLtd; and lastly Ophir Energy PLC and Do-

minion PetroleumLtd.

Speaking to theFCC newsletter, theDirector of Research,Mergers and advo-cacy Mr. allan SyrilMlulla said that thesaid applications wereapproved without

conditions based on the technical analyses,which demonstrated that they neither had thecapacity to create nor strengthen a positionof dominance in a relevant market. He elab-orated further that according to the “harm-to-competition-test”, to which theseapplications were subjected, it was revealedthat there was no possibility for any of thesefirms to act unilaterally and harm competi-tion in the relevant markets.

Mr. Mlulla said that, generally, pre-merger control regimes are adopted to pre-vent anti-competitive consequences inmarkets. in practice most merger controlregimes are based on very similar underlyingprinciples, that is, the creation of a dominantposition would usually result in a substantiallessening of or significant impediment to ef-fective competition. However, mergers haveto be reviewed on merits to establish the ex-tent to which benefits outweigh their effectsbefore they can be approved or rejected.

He added that FCC has previously issuedand is currently reviewing Merger Guidelinesand, thus, called on firms to voluntarily com-ply with the Fair Competition act (FCa) bymaking sure that they notify the Commissionon their intent to merge or acquire anotherfirm. This legal requirement is usually appli-cable if the merging firms fall within the pre-scribed merger notification threshold level ofTanzanian Shillings 800 million of turnoveror combined assets of merging firms.

The FCa has clearly stipulated that firmsfailing to notify a merger or acquisition, andwhich shall be found to fall within the mergernotification threshold, may face severepenalty, including paying a fine pegged up to10% of their annual turnover, calculated fromthe latest audited accounts.

By Salvator Chuwa, Senior Merger Analyst

“Generally pre-merger control regimes

are adopted to prevent anti-competitive

consequences in markets”,

Allan Mlulla,Director for Research,

Mergers and Advocacy

3 ADVOCACY SEMINARS

Stakeholders Call For FCC’s

Nationwide Presence

STaKEHOLDERS in the Regional advocacy awareness Seminars

in Mara, Mwanza, Dodoma and Morogoro have called on the Gov-

ernment to speed up the commitment to empowering the Fair Com-

petition Commission to establish zonal and regional offices in

order to provide a suitable platform for addressing competition,

Mwanza Regional Commissioner, Eng. Evarist Ndikilo, making aninaugural speech to participants of an advocacy seminar for strate-gic stakeholders in Mwanza in November, 2011. Stakeholders insuch seminars have called on the Government to expand the finan-cial support to FCC to allow it to have presence at Regional andZonal levels

By Staff Reporter

consumer protection and anti-counterfeit related challenges at na-

tional Level in a more practical manner.

The stakeholders indicated this during regional awareness cam-

paigns held in these regions in the last quarter of 2011. Stakehold-

ers in Mara and Mwanza Regions observed that the regions have a

very wide and porous border points on the lake side, which makes

it a challenging area for curbing counterfeit goods and other illegal

forms of trade. They pointed out that smuggling of sugar to neigh-

bouring countries has been one of the serious cases in point. They

noted further that sugar smuggling and racketeering have created

artificial shortage of sugar in the region, which has significantly

prompted the sharp raise of the consumer price of sugar in the re-

gion.

They, however, commended the Commission’s efforts in curb-

ing counterfeit goods thus far and urged for increased awareness

of members of the business community on the effects of counterfeit

goods to the economy and the community, as well as the legal

framework in combating the scourge. They said this will instill vol-

untary compliance with the law and help the economy to grow

while meeting the needs of the consumers.

Stakeholders in Dodoma and Morogoro Regions also shared

similar observations. The advocacy awareness seminars brought

together Regional and District Trade and Cooperative Officers, Tax

administration officers and managers, District Directors, Repre-

sentatives from Tanzania Chamber of industries, Commerce and

agriculture and the Confederation of Tanzania industries. Others

came from the Judiciary, Regional Offices of attorney General’s

Chamber, individual Businessmen including traders, wholesalers

and retailers, Manufacturing and processing firms, Tertiary aca-

demic institutions, Representatives from Consumer Protection as-

sociations, nGOs and CBOs, representatives of Regional Police

Commander and the press.

Participants in the Mwanza Advocacy Seminar making a close fol-low up of the Seminar proceedings. They called for stepped up Gov-ernment commitments to facilitate FCC’s presence Nationwide.

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Advocacy Seminars Register

Milestone Achievements

THE Fair Competition Commission (FCC)had registered a milestone achievement in un-dertaking advocacy awareness seminars andconsumer protection’s “Training of Trainers”drive between June and December, 2011

a total of six advocacy awareness-train-ing seminars were carried out between Juneand December, 2011 in which case a total ofabout 600 stakeholders benefitted from thesessions.

The Regions which benefitted from theadvocacy seminars are Tanga and Kiliman-jaro Regions (in June, 2011), Mara andMwanza Regions (in november, 2011 as wellas Dodoma and Morogoro Regions (in De-cember, 2011).

The Commission also conducted four“Training of Trainers” Workshops to Con-sumer Protection Stakeholders to about 120consumer protection stakeholders from thetertiary learning institutions in Dodoma, Mt-wara, Mwanza and Morogoro. The trainingsessions for Dodoma and Mtwara stakehold-ers were done in June, 2011 while those forMwanza and Morogoro were conducted in

november and December, 2011, respectively.The stakeholders’ advocacy seminars and

Consumer Training sessions for consumertrainers are part of the Commission’s cam-paign to promote voluntary compliance to thetwo pieces of legislation it oversees amongstmembers of the business community. Thesame are meant to enable Government deci-sion making entities, such as the judiciary andthe local government authorities, to have acommon frame of understanding of key as-pects of the laws being advocated.

FCC spearheads the implementation oftwo pieces of legislation namely the FairCompetition act (no. 8 of 2003) and theMerchandise Marks act, 1963. The samewere the key subject of advocacy training,where the consumer training of trainers’ ses-sions covered specific consumer protectionissues including “Financial Literacy Chal-lenges”.

Stakeholders to the advocacy awarenessseminars and the “Training of Trainers Ses-sions” were drawn from Regional and Dis-trict Trade and Cooperative Offices, Taxadministration (especially customs), DistrictDirectors’ Offices, Representatives from Tan-

By Staff Reporter

ADVOCACY SEMINARS

zania Chamber of industries, Commerce andagriculture, Representatives from the Con-federation of Tanzania industries, Represen-tatives from the Judiciary, Regional Officesof attorney General’s Chamber and individ-ual businessmen including traders, whole-salers and retailers, manufacturing andprocessing firms. Other stakeholders weredrawn from Tertiary academic institutions,Consumer Protection associations, nGOsand CBOs, Representatives of Regional Po-lice Commander, and the press.

Post-seminar analysis indicates that theCommission substantially benefitted fromsuch advocacy awareness and consumer pro-tection training of trainers’ sessions.

Some of the benefits include the poolingtogether of various Government bodies witha view to forge a common framework of un-derstanding of the two market support legis-lation namely the Fair Competition act(FCa) and the Merchandise Marks act(MMa).

additionally, members of the BusinessCommunity were enlightened of their role infulfilling the requirements of the law (FCa &MMa) in undertaking their businesses.

Members of the Business Communityand the Government Machinery were pro-vided with a common platform upon whichthey were able to exchange views, ideas andconcerns, and establish working relation-ships.

another benefit is the fact that the Com-mission was able to gather views and con-cerns from the stakeholders, including theneed to advise the Government on financingthe expansion of the Commission activitiesto Regional and zonal levels.

additionally, representatives from the ter-tiary learning institutions expressed the needfor having curricular on competition law andeconomics as well as consumer protection inthe Tanzanian tertiary institutions.

The overall benefit of this awareness isthe fact that investment and business climate,as well as investor confidence, were given aboost in respective regions since key Re-gional administrators were able to conceptu-alize and own the market support drive intheir respective working areas.

The Commission intends to hold two ad-vocacy awareness seminars in iringa andMbeya in the first half of 2012. in addition, aspecialized seminar on counterfeit productsfor Kariakoo traders is planned over the sameperiod. The latter aims at equipping thetraders with the requisite skills and under-standing of the requirements of the law thatprevents trading in counterfeit goods.

Dodoma Regional Commissioner, Hon. Dr. Rehema Nchimbi, speaking to participants during the

advocacy seminar held at St. Gasper Conference Centre in Dodoma in December, 2011.

5 CONSUMER ISSUES

FCC, Stakeholders, Partner in

Developing Consumer Policy

in an effort to protect all consumers in thecountry, the Fair Competition Commission incollaboration with Consumer ConsultativeCouncils (CCCs) of the regulatory authorities,namely SUMaTRa, EWURa, TCCa,TCRa and the national Consumer advocacyCouncil (nCaC), under the leadership of theUmbrella Consumer Union “Tanzania Con-sumer Forum (TCF)”, has made a familiar-ization tour in Egypt in October, 2011 to learnfrom them on the best international practicein consumer policy development approaches.

The study tour serves as an input towardsefforts to develope the draft “national Con-sumer Protection Policy Document” that willcoordinate and guide on the consumer protec-tion issues in Tanzania and define the role ofthe Government in the area. in the said studytour FCC was represented by a Senior Con-sumer Protection Officer, Economist, Mr.Utukufu Ezekiel Kyando.

Best practices in consumer protectionmodels are presently well developed in sev-eral developing countries including Egypt,South africa, Ghana and Brazil.

The visit intended to provide an opportu-nity for the team to learn, at close range, in-stitutional set up, regulatory trilogy, consumerprotection models, advocacy policies and bestpractices currently implemented by Con-sumer Protection authority in Cairo. The les-sons learnt provide valuable inputs for theadoption and adaptation to our ProposedDraft of national Consumer Protection Policy(PDnCPP) and general practices in our dayto day consumer protection activities.

Prior to trade liberalization in 1986, whichwas followed by the enactment of regulatoryand competition legislations between 2001and 2003, Tanzania pursued a centrallyplanned economy spearheaded by the arushaDeclaration of 1967, which, among others,did not have in place neither an explicit con-sumer protection policy nor a unified piece oflegislation.

Provisions relating to consumer protec-tion in Tanzania are still scattered in severalpieces of legislation to date. This makes it dif-ficult for the average Tanzanian consumer toknow his or her rights as a consumer andchampion for the same. This, therefore,means that a coherent Consumer ProtectionPolicy and a comprehensive regulatory

By Joshua MsomaSenior Consumer Protection Officer

regime for Consumer Protection are neces-sary ingredients in fostering consumer’s abil-ity to make informed choices and exercisetheir statutory and contractual rights and re-sponsibilities as charted out by United nation(Un) Guidelines for Consumer Protection in1985.

Efforts in developing consumer protectionpolicy seek to bridge these historical gaps andchallenges encountered by Consumer Con-sultative Councils (CCCs) in adapting theeight international consumer rights. The effortwill mainstream consumer protection and theinternational consumer rights into a commonpolicy, legislative framework, effective en-forcement mechanisms and comprehensiveredress system with coherent institutionalarrangements.

Development of consumer protection pol-icy recognizes that consumers in the marketeconomy represent the weakest link and the

A cross section of newspaper and commuter bus consumers at the New Post Office in Dar es

Salaam. These form part of teh large Tanzanian consumer society confronted with various chal-

lenges. Such challenges call for a National Consumer Protection Policy.

most disorganized players among key playersin the value exchange chain, (the other playersbeing the Government and supplier of goodsand services). The policy, which will be thefirst since Tanzania’s independence, is ex-pected to bring about effective consumer pro-tection mechanisms and lead to theempowerment of consumers in the variousproduct markets. Furthermore, the effort con-firms the Country’s commitment to upholdingthe international best practices in consumerprotection initiatives, which places a policy atthe driver’s seat in guiding legislative frame-work in the area.

The policy development process startedback in the financial year 2010/2011 and thefinal draft is expected to be ready in the firstquarter of financial year 2011/2012, thereafterthe document will be submitted to the Gov-ernment for adoption and further considera-tions of policy formulation procedures.

Group of Experts was of the view that com-petition policy and law is an integral com-ponent of regional integration process. TheGroup of Experts also agreed on the needfor national competition authorities to con-tinue their cooperation, which will ulti-mately lead to full harmonization andconvergence as called for under the Tripar-tite Federal Trade agreement. Similarly, thealready existing degree of cooperation andharmonization among SaDC member stateswith competition laws and enforcementagencies was also acknowledged and appre-ciated. The group observed that there was asatisfactory harmonization on competitionpolicy and law analytical tools, design ofremedies, capacity building and technicalassistance.

6STAKEHOLDERS SEMINAR

VICOBA Laud FCC’s Consumer Awareness Campaigns

THE Village Community Bank (ViCOBa)President Ms. Devota Likokola (MP) ap-plauded the move taken by the Fair Compe-tition Commission (FCC) in reaching ruralconsumers through Consumer awarenessCampaign. She commends the move to Vi-COBa branch managers on 6th December,2011 when attending a seminar organized byViCOBa, TRa and FCC in Dar es Salaam.

according to ViCOBa President, Vi-COBa currently has 6,700 groups with at least30 members per group country wide. This isto say, a total number of its member is morethan 201,000. She pointed out that the structureand population of ViCOBa is a feasible andstrategic opportunity to the Fair CompetitionCommission in dissemination of ConsumerEducation and awareness Campaign to themajority consumers.

FCC‘s Consumer Protection Department,among other things, trained ViCOBa branch

managers on various issues of importance toconsumer protection such as the world his-tory of consumer protection, evolution ofconsumer protection in Tanzania, consumerrights, consumer responsibilities, consumerprotection according to the Fair Competitionact, no 8. 2003, key consumer issues, effectof counterfeit goods to consumers and to thecountry’s economy, precautions to be takenby consumers and the importance of finan-cial literacy to consumers.

FCC is promoting the need to provide fi-nancial education to consumers and raisingtheir level of awareness as a means to equipthem to make better informed, consideredand rational choices in financial services.Through financial literacy programs, con-sumers are expected to take more responsi-bility for their financial security sincefinancial products are becoming more com-plex and diverse. Currently, consumers areoffered a variety of credit and savings instru-ments both at home and across borders, pro-vided by a range of entities from on-linebanks to other types of credit institutions andbrokers. This makes financial productsharder to understand and to compare; it alsoincreases the risk of buying an inappropriateproduct.

The seminar opened up a new chapter ofcollaboration between FCC and CommunityBased Organizations this being an importantinitiative to enhance the role of disseminatingConsumer Education to majority consumers.ViCOBa and other nGO’s structure is effi-cient and effective forum of disseminatingConsumer Education to consumers in thecountry.

By Utukufu KyandoSenior Consumer Protection Officer

THE Fair Competition Commission tookpart in the Southern african DevelopmentCooperation (SaDC) Regional Meeting onCompetition Policy Programme inGaborone, Botswana from 27th to 28th no-vember, 2011, which is an avenue for re-gional competition jurisdictions to shareexperiences and challenges in implementingCompetition Policy and Law.

FCC was represented in the session bythe Director General, Dr. Geoffrey Mariki,the Director of Research, Mergers and ad-vocacy, Mr. allan Mlulla and the Head ofadvocacy, Mr. Shadrack nkelebe.

VICOBA President, Hon. Devotha Likokola (MP) speaking during a joint TRA-FCC awareness

seminar for VICOBA national representatives held in Dar es Salaam in December, 2011. To her

left is FCC’s Senior Consumer Protection Officer, Mr. Joshua Msoma.

FCC Participate in SADC Competition Roundtable DiscussionThe session was a result of the decision of

the 3rd meeting of the SaDC Committee onCompetition and Consumer Law and Policymade in november, 2010 in Johannesburg,South africa, that dedicated session of expertson regional competition policy be organizedby the SaDC Secretariat.

The roundtable discussions focused onthree main issues, namely: Review of theSaDC Competition Policy Programme, Con-sideration of the Harmonization Frameworkand Cooperation with other Similar Regionalinitiatives (EaC, COMESa and ECOWaS)

Having reviewed and discussed the twoconsultants’ reports on modalities for cooper-ation and harmonization of national competi-tion policies among SaDC Member StatesSaDC Group of Experts on Competition, the

By Emmanuel J. KaaleHead, Information Systems

and Services

7 CONSUMER ISSUES

FCC Handover Secretariat of African Dialogue

for Consumer Protection to Nigeria

in the third annual african Dialogue Con-sumer Protection conference held in abuja,nigeria from 13th to 15th September, 2011,FCC handed over african Consumer Protec-tion Dialogue Secretariat to nigerian Con-sumer Protection Commission (CPC) for theyear 2011/2012 as per arusha Resolutions ofthe Second annual Conference of the africanConsumer Protection Dialogue held in 2010.

The Third annual african Dialogue Con-sumer Protection conference was held underthe theme “Generation next: Consumer Pro-tection issues affecting Children and assess-

ing Online and Mobile payments Systems”.The objective the third annual african

Dialogue conference was to confer consumerprotection organization across africa oppor-tunities to share best practices and undertakecross-border investigation of commercial ac-tivities that may affect consumers’ interest intheir respective countries.

The african Dialogue’s September, 2011conference proved a resounding success. Oneof the most significant outcomes was a revi-sion of the priority initiatives for the africanConsumer Protection Dialogue. The most no-table changes in the initiatives were in the fol-lowing three areas:

firstly, the african Dialogue agreed to in-

Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Michael Shilla (then Director of Corporate and Con-sumer Affairs), presenting a paper at the 2nd Annual African Consumer Protection Di-alogue at Ngurdoto Hotel in Arusha in 2010. FCC through the named Directorate wascharged with the duties of a secretariat to the African Consumer Protection Dialoguefor the year 2010/2011.

By Joshua MsomaSenior Consumer Protection Officer

corporate Regulatory Frameworks and Com-mon Consumer Protection Challenges facingchildren in africa. among other things theafrican Dialogue underscored the impor-tance of safeguarding children because theyare the future of every society and the leadersof tomorrow. african Dialogue emphasizedthat, whatever efforts geared in ensuring chil-dren’s well being is commendable, as thiswill bring about sustainable development ofour society.

Secondly, in recognizing “sustainableconsumptions”, Consumer Protection agen-cies were encouraged to architect and advo-cate policies and campaign that seek to:promote the adoption of consumption andproduction patterns that safeguard humanrights and community well being; promotingconsumer products and services with tomor-row in view; promoting present consumptionand production patterns that do not damagethe future generation; avoiding social, eco-nomic and environmental ills; alerting con-sumers on the aggressive and fraudulentcommercial messages that cause environ-mental ills; and promote the establishment ofmodel for sustainable consumption pro-grammes in main towns.

Lastly, in recognizing the various chal-lenges caused by the complexity of financialmarkets, Consumer Protection agencies wereencouraged to architect and advocate for poli-cies that promote “financial literacy” and li-aise and work with Central Banks to ensurethat before new banking products are of-floaded to the market, such products do haveconsumer friendly features as remedy mech-anism to the existing weak financial con-sumer protection.

in the year 2009, Federal Trade Commis-sion of USa, Fair Competition Commissionof Tanzania (FCC) and Consumer protectionagencies in africa spearheaded the initiationof african Consumer Protection Dialogue,with the objectives of exchanging consumerprotection experiences, information sharingand best practices across the globe throughinformal monthly teleconferencing amongseveral regional consumer protection agen-cies.

in the Second annual african Dialogueon Consumer Protection Conference held inarusha, Tanzania in July 2010, members ap-pointed FCC to form the first african Dia-logue (aD) secretariat for the year2010/2011. The secretariat was chaired byMr. Michael Shilla (Director of Corporate af-fairs) as aD Executive Secretary and Mr.Joshua Msoma (Senior Consumer ProtectionOfficer) as Deputy Executive Secretary.

8NEWS IN PICTURES

FCC’s Head of Anti-counterfeit Enforcement Department, Mr. JohnMponela (l) speaking to the press during the 35th Dar es Salaam Interna-tional Trade Fairs (DITF) on 2nd July, 2011. FCC held a Press conferenceto sensitize members of the press on anti-counterfeit issues as well as generalissues relating to the Fair Competition Commission.

Participants of the Mwanza Advocacy Seminar held at Gold Crest Hotel inNovember, 2011 in a group photograph with the Mwanza Regional Com-missioner, Hon. Eng. Evarist Welle Ndikilo.

Participants of the Mara Advocacy Seminar held at Afrilux Hotel in Musomain November, 2011 in a group photograph.

Participants in the Dodoma awareness seminar held at St. Gaspar Confer-ence Centre, in December, 2011, following up proceedings of the seminar.

Participants in the Advocacy awareness seminar held in Morogoro in De-cember, 2011, learning how to identify counterfeit goods. FCC’s Senior Con-sumer Protection Officer, Mr. Joshua Msoma (in white shirt) gives acounterfeit identification demonstration.

Participants of the Morogoro Advocacy Seminar held at Nashera Hotel inDecember, 2011 in a group photograph with the Morogoro Regional Com-missioner, Hon. Joel N. Bendera.

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