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The Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor, or Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer (PROFECO, for short), is an organization of the
who has been the federal consumer attorney since August 2017.
The Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor, or Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer (PROFECO, for short), is an organization of the Mexican government
The Federal government of Mexico (alternately known as the Government of the Republic or ' or ') is the national government of the United Mexican States, the central government established by its constitution to share sovereignty over the republi ...
led by on the Attorney General
In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general or attorney-general (sometimes abbreviated AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government. The plural is attorneys general.
In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have exec ...
. Mexico became the second Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
n nation to pass a Federal Consumer Protection Law, on February 5, 1976, and later became the first to create an Office for the Prosecutor
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the common law adversarial system or the Civil law (legal system), civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the ...
. By 1982, the Office had 32 representations, one in each state and one in the Federal District
A federal district is a type of administrative division of a federation, usually under the direct control of a federal government and organized sometimes with a single municipal body. Federal districts often include capital districts, and they e ...
. PROFECO has in total 51 offices all over the republic, and its main office is in Mexico City
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. The most recent reform of this federal law was signed by the Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto
Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ...
at the beginning of 2018.PROFECO works together with other organizations like CPSC (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC, CPSC, or commission) is an independent agency of the United States government. The CPSC seeks to promote the safety of consumer products by addressing “unreasonable risks” of inj ...
) from the United States
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. and Health Canada
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from Canada
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to guarantee that imported products are safe for consumer
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s. In February 2018, the representatives of these three organizations met in the U.S. to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU). With this agreement these three countries compromised to ensure the quality of imported products for south
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and North America
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n consumers. The representative of PROFECO in this meeting was the attorneybr>Rogelio Cerda Perezwho has been the federal consumer attorney since August 2017.
Objectives
* Protect consumers against abuses or fraud by companies operating in Mexico. * Provide information to help consumers make good decisions when they need to buy products. * Inform the community about their rights and obligations as consumers. * Create and put in practice new methods to provide prompt attention for consumer complaints.Programs
* The Good Weekend (El Buen Fin
El Buen Fin (short for "El Buen Fin de Semana," meaning "The Good Weekend") is an annual nationwide shopping event in Mexico. It began in 2011. It occurs the weekend before Mexican Revolution Day, which is observed on the third Monday of Novembe ...
): a shopping weekend intended to stimulate the economy by encouraging consumption
* Who is Who on the Prices (Quien es Quien en los Precios (QQP)): PROFECO collects information about prices of products that consumers buy regularly. They make a list comparing the prices of these products at different stores, and share this information with the consumers to help them decide where is the best place to buy.
* Consumer magazine: PROFECO has published this monthly magazine for more than 40 years. In this magazine consumers will find a wide variety of information about daily life, like comparison of products, recipes, studies and alerts.
Current Commissioners
See also
*United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement
The Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada (USMCA) Commonly known as the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) in the United States and the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CU ...
* Canada–Mexico relations
The relations between Canada and Mexico have evolved over time. Historic ties between the two nations were dormant, but since the 1990s relations between Canada and Mexico have positively developed, as both countries brokered the NAFTA. They were o ...
* Mexico–United States relations
Mexico and the United States have a complex history, with war in the 1840s and American acquisition of Texas, California and New Mexico. Pressure from Washington forced the French invaders out in the 1860s. The Mexican Revolution of the 1910s saw ...
* Toy safety
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* Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
* El Buen Fin
El Buen Fin (short for "El Buen Fin de Semana," meaning "The Good Weekend") is an annual nationwide shopping event in Mexico. It began in 2011. It occurs the weekend before Mexican Revolution Day, which is observed on the third Monday of Novembe ...
References
External links
* http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5510424&fecha=11/01/2018 * https://www.cpsc.gov/content/cpsc-profeco-and-health-canada-issue-joint-statement-on-the-fourth-north-america-product * https://www.gob.mx/profeco/estructuras/rogelio-cerda-perez * https://elbuenfin.profeco.gob.mx/ * https://issuu.com/profeco/docs/revista_del_consumidor_septiembre_2 * http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5510424&fecha=11/01/2018 Federal law enforcement agencies of Mexico Prosecution Consumer rights agencies {{Mexico-org-stub