The General Consumer Council for Northern Ireland (GCCNI) was created by the Government in 1985 and is funded by the

Department for the Economy The Department for the Economy (DfE, ga, An Roinn Geilleagair) is a devolved Northern Ireland government department in the Northern Ireland Executive. The minister with overall responsibility for the department is the Minister for the Econo ...

(DfE). The body aims to represent

consumer A consumer is a person or a group who intends to order, or uses purchased goods, products, or services primarily for personal, social, family, household and similar needs, who is not directly related to entrepreneurial or business activities. T ...

s' interests. It is designated by the Secretary of State as being able to bring a

super-complaint A super-complaint is a complaint made in the UK by a state-approved "super-complainant"/watchdog organisation on behalf of consumers, which was fast-tracked to a higher authority such as the Office of Fair Trading (prior to its dissolution on 1 Ap ...

to the OFT:

References

Northern Ireland Executive 1985 establishments in Northern Ireland Organizations established in 1985 {{NorthernIreland-org-stub