The Romanian Association for Consumers’ Protection – APC Romania – will celebrate its 25th year with an anniversary event on 25 February, 2015. Founded in February of 1990, APC Romania (a BEUC member since November 2005) is a non-governmental and not for profit organization, its main objectives being to defend, promote and represent the interests of consumers among businesses and institutions.

Allow as to remember that Wednesday, May 28, 2014, on the occasion of a remarkable Roundtable – “Consumer protection and the pressure of economic and societal changes: the digital revolution; the sustainable consumption; the social exclusion, the vulnerable consumers and the accessibility” – Associate Professor Costel Stanciu, President of APC Romania, was awarded the Diploma of „Honorary Member” of the Romanian Distribution Committee, as a prestigious recognition for his endeavor and achievement.

We already argued that APC Romania, a Founding Member of the Romanian Distribution Committee, is continuing to confirm: the ability to reach its role of independent campaigning voice for Romanian consumers, by focusing on the shared concerns of consumers within Romanian society at large and by constantly covering the complex area of expectations from business in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility; that an educated consumer is a powerful consumer, able to protect himself and to modify unfair commercial conduct of the economic operator.