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July-December, 2011
Issues No. 0003 - 0004
More Awareness Administered
Through Exhibitions
President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete greeting FCC Officers (from right to left) Chester Kapinga, John Mponela and Martha Kisyombe
at the FCC Stall during the 35th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fairs held in Dar es Salaam in July, 2011. To the President’s
left (in grey suit) is FCC’s Director of Research, Mergers and Advocacy, Mr. Allan S. Mlulla.
By Staff Reporter
Tanzanian public had more opportunities of becoming aware of the activities of the
Fair Competition Commission through exhibitions carried out during the Farmers Exhibitions in Dodoma in august, 2011, and the
Exhibitions which took place at Mwalimu
nyerere Grounds along Kilwa Road in Dar
es Salaam to commemorate 50th independence anniversary in December, 2011.
The two exhibitions were mainly used as
a means to showcase achievements attained
in the concerted national development efforts
by both the public and the private. However,
for the case of the Fair Competition Commission (hereafter referred to as FCC), it was
an opportunity to demonstrate the Government’s commitment to creation and improvement of investment climate in the country
through establishment of modern regulatory
framework and competition oversight body
with a view to promoting a level playing
field for all players in the market.
During FCC’s participation in the farmers’ exhibitions held at nzuguni Grounds in
Dodoma in august, 2011, FCC show-cased
its support to agribusiness undertakings and
sensitized the public on various issues, such
as the need for being aware of and adhering
to competition issues, consumer rights and
responsibilities, and issues relating to trade
in counterfeit goods. The efforts aimed at
making agribusiness undertakings more
competitive in the local and international
markets.
This follows from the fact that the agricultural Revolution Drive (Kilimo Kwanza),
aiming at placing agriculture at the driver’s
seat of the economy, seeks to use all market
support institutions, agro-processing firms
and market growth opportunities in a manner
that would yield sustainable growth of the
agricultural sector and the economy at large.
Some lessons were drawn during these
exhibitions. The first lesson was a fact that
FCC need to step up its outreach efforts by
way of increasing awareness of Tanzanians
and businesses operating in Tanzania on
competition issues, consumer rights and responsibilities and counterfeit issues. Secondly, the general public suggested that there
is a need to put a demarcation on “anti-counterfeit awareness” efforts in order for FCC to
limit itself to enlightening the public on what
the anti-counterfeit law (the Merchandise
Marks act, (MMa) 1963, as amended) outlaws; whereas brand awareness and brand
protection activities should be left to brand
owners.
ARTICLE/EDITORIAL
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FCC Approves 10 Merger
Applications
Editorial
afsat Communications (T) Ltd; Woolworths
Holdings (Mauritius) Ltd and W-Store Company (Tanzania) Ltd; Telcom international
THE Fair Competition Commission (FCC) and africa Online (T) Ltd; Karimjee Jivanjee
approved without condition a total of 10 Ltd and Jacaranda Development Ltd; Maymerger applications out of 14 notified at the ibuye Group Ltd and Blue Financial Services
Commission between July, 2011 and Decem- Ltd; and lastly Ophir Energy PLC and Dober, 2011.
minion Petroleum
The approved “Generally pre-merger control regimes
Ltd.
mergers were be- are adopted to prevent anti-competitive
Speaking to the
tween Puma En- consequences in markets”,
FCC newsletter, the
ergy
Tanzania
Director of Research,
investment Ltd
Allan Mlulla, Mergers and advoand BP Tanzania
Director for Research, cacy Mr. allan Syril
Ltd; HTT infraco
Mergers and Advocacy Mlulla said that the
Ltd and MiC Tansaid applications were
zania Ltd, Tuscany
approved
without
Rig Leasing and S.a. & Caroil S.a.S. Other conditions based on the technical analyses,
mergers were between TP(SD) Ltd and which demonstrated that they neither had the
Kingdom 5KR-90; africa Online (T) Ltd and capacity to create nor strengthen a position
of dominance in a relevant market. He elaborated further that according to the “harm-tocompetition-test”,
to
which
these
applications were subjected, it was revealed
that there was no possibility for any of these
firms to act unilaterally and harm competition in the relevant markets.
Mr. Mlulla said that, generally, premerger control regimes are adopted to preMembers
vent anti-competitive consequences in
markets. in practice most merger control
Allan S. Mlulla Chairman
regimes are based on very similar underlying
Salma
Deputy
principles, that is, the creation of a dominant
Maghimbi
Chairperson
position
would usually result in a substantial
Joshua Msoma Secretary
lessening of or significant impediment to efFrank S. Mdimi Editor
fective competition. However, mergers have
to
be reviewed on merits to establish the exMagdalena Utouh
Member
tent
to which benefits outweigh their effects
Emmanuel Kaale
Member
before they can be approved or rejected.
He added that FCC has previously issued
Assistants
and is currently reviewing Merger Guidelines
Zuberi Kabonge
and, thus, called on firms to voluntarily comBlandina Kitime
ply with the Fair Competition act (FCa) by
making sure that they notify the Commission
on their intent to merge or acquire another
firm. This legal requirement is usually appliDirector General
cable if the merging firms fall within the preFair Competition Commission,
scribed merger notification threshold level of
2nd Floor, Western Wing,
Tanzanian Shillings 800 million of turnover
Ubungo Plaza,
or combined assets of merging firms.
Morogoro Road,
P.O.Box 7883, Dar es Salaam,
The FCa has clearly stipulated that firms
Tanzania.
failing to notify a merger or acquisition, and
Tel. +255 22 2461565/6/7,
which shall be found to fall within the merger
Fax +255 22 2461568,
notification threshold, may face severe
E-mail [email protected],
penalty, including paying a fine pegged up to
Website: www.competition.or.tz
10% of their annual turnover, calculated from
the latest audited accounts.
By Salvator Chuwa,
Senior Merger Analyst
Editorial
Boar d
WELCOME dear readers to our combined
edition containing the 3rd and the 4th issues
of FCC Online newsletter. The previous
two quarters had not been quite eventful at
FCC, but major milestones were achieved
in the course of implementing FCC’s legal
mandate vide FCa and MMa.
We are a market support institution that
is poised to promote and protect effective
competition in Trade and Commerce and
protect consumers from unfair and misleading market conduct. To this end, the
Commission has continued applying enforcement and advocacy mechanisms to
promote compliance to the establishing act
(FCa).
The Commission held a marathon of
advocacy awareness Seminars in Mara,
Mwanza, Dodoma and Morogoro between
november and December, 2011. We have
carried excerpts of these activities in this
combo issue.
FCC has also had an opportunity of carrying out two consumer “Training of Trainers” Sessions in Mwanza and Morogoro in
the same time.
Similarly, the Commission participated
in a number of exhibitions which helped in
showcasing its activities to members of the
public. The events also helped the Commission to understand the public views on
how best to improve its activities.
The Commission was able to distribute
a number of communication materials during such exhibitions. We were also able to
make a number of demonstrations with regard to counterfeit goods.
FCC was also well represented at international arena, notably in the efforts towards developing a national Consumer
Protection Policy. Similarly the Commission was also represented in the third annual african Protection Dialogue in abuja,
nigeria.
We have carried stories along these
lines in our newsletter for readers to understand and appreciate the Commission’s efforts in carrying out its legally mandated
activities.
We are committed to continuing bringing you updates on FCC activities, achievements and milestones in forthcoming
issues. Should you have any issues, concerns or comments, we encourage you to
write the same to the editor vide the address
on the left hand-side of this page.
Enjoy the reading of this edition of
FCC newsletter.
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ADVOCACY SEMINARS
Stakeholders Call For FCC’s
Nationwide Presence
consumer protection and anti-counterfeit related challenges at national Level in a more practical manner.
The stakeholders indicated this during regional awareness campaigns held in these regions in the last quarter of 2011. Stakeholders 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 neighbouring 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 region.
They, however, commended the Commission’s efforts in curbing 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 voluntary 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, Representatives 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 academic institutions, Representatives from Consumer Protection associations, nGOs and CBOs, representatives of Regional Police
Commander and the press.
Mwanza Regional Commissioner, Eng. Evarist Ndikilo, making an
inaugural speech to participants of an advocacy seminar for strategic stakeholders in Mwanza in November, 2011. Stakeholders in
such seminars have called on the Government to expand the financial support to FCC to allow it to have presence at Regional and
Zonal levels
By Staff Reporter
STaKEHOLDERS in the Regional advocacy awareness Seminars
in Mara, Mwanza, Dodoma and Morogoro have called on the Government to speed up the commitment to empowering the Fair Competition Commission to establish zonal and regional offices in
order to provide a suitable platform for addressing competition,
Participants in the Mwanza Advocacy Seminar making a close follow up of the Seminar proceedings. They called for stepped up Government commitments to facilitate FCC’s presence Nationwide.
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ADVOCACY SEMINARS
Advocacy Seminars Register
Milestone Achievements
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.
By Staff Reporter
THE Fair Competition Commission (FCC)
had registered a milestone achievement in undertaking advocacy awareness seminars and
consumer protection’s “Training of Trainers”
drive between June and December, 2011
a total of six advocacy awareness-training seminars were carried out between June
and December, 2011 in which case a total of
about 600 stakeholders benefitted from the
sessions.
The Regions which benefitted from the
advocacy seminars are Tanga and Kilimanjaro Regions (in June, 2011), Mara and
Mwanza Regions (in november, 2011 as well
as Dodoma and Morogoro Regions (in December, 2011).
The Commission also conducted four
“Training of Trainers” Workshops to Consumer Protection Stakeholders to about 120
consumer protection stakeholders from the
tertiary learning institutions in Dodoma, Mtwara, Mwanza and Morogoro. The training
sessions for Dodoma and Mtwara stakeholders were done in June, 2011 while those for
Mwanza and Morogoro were conducted in
november and December, 2011, respectively.
The stakeholders’ advocacy seminars and
Consumer Training sessions for consumer
trainers are part of the Commission’s campaign to promote voluntary compliance to the
two pieces of legislation it oversees amongst
members of the business community. The
same are meant to enable Government decision making entities, such as the judiciary and
the local government authorities, to have a
common frame of understanding of key aspects of the laws being advocated.
FCC spearheads the implementation of
two pieces of legislation namely the Fair
Competition act (no. 8 of 2003) and the
Merchandise Marks act, 1963. The same
were the key subject of advocacy training,
where the consumer training of trainers’ sessions covered specific consumer protection
issues including “Financial Literacy Challenges”.
Stakeholders to the advocacy awareness
seminars and the “Training of Trainers Sessions” were drawn from Regional and District Trade and Cooperative Offices, Tax
administration (especially customs), District
Directors’ Offices, Representatives from Tan-
zania Chamber of industries, Commerce and
agriculture, Representatives from the Confederation of Tanzania industries, Representatives from the Judiciary, Regional Offices
of attorney General’s Chamber and individual businessmen including traders, wholesalers and retailers, manufacturing and
processing firms. Other stakeholders were
drawn from Tertiary academic institutions,
Consumer Protection associations, nGOs
and CBOs, Representatives of Regional Police Commander, and the press.
Post-seminar analysis indicates that the
Commission substantially benefitted from
such advocacy awareness and consumer protection training of trainers’ sessions.
Some of the benefits include the pooling
together of various Government bodies with
a view to forge a common framework of understanding of the two market support legislation namely the Fair Competition act
(FCa) and the Merchandise Marks act
(MMa).
additionally, members of the Business
Community were enlightened of their role in
fulfilling the requirements of the law (FCa &
MMa) in undertaking their businesses.
Members of the Business Community
and the Government Machinery were provided with a common platform upon which
they were able to exchange views, ideas and
concerns, and establish working relationships.
another benefit is the fact that the Commission was able to gather views and concerns from the stakeholders, including the
need to advise the Government on financing
the expansion of the Commission activities
to Regional and zonal levels.
additionally, representatives from the tertiary learning institutions expressed the need
for having curricular on competition law and
economics as well as consumer protection in
the Tanzanian tertiary institutions.
The overall benefit of this awareness is
the fact that investment and business climate,
as well as investor confidence, were given a
boost in respective regions since key Regional administrators were able to conceptualize and own the market support drive in
their respective working areas.
The Commission intends to hold two advocacy awareness seminars in iringa and
Mbeya in the first half of 2012. in addition, a
specialized seminar on counterfeit products
for Kariakoo traders is planned over the same
period. The latter aims at equipping the
traders with the requisite skills and understanding of the requirements of the law that
prevents trading in counterfeit goods.
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CONSUMER ISSUES
FCC, Stakeholders, Partner in
Developing Consumer Policy
By Joshua Msoma
Senior Consumer Protection Officer
in an effort to protect all consumers in the
country, the Fair Competition Commission in
collaboration with Consumer Consultative
Councils (CCCs) of the regulatory authorities,
namely SUMaTRa, EWURa, TCCa,
TCRa and the national Consumer advocacy
Council (nCaC), under the leadership of the
Umbrella Consumer Union “Tanzania Consumer Forum (TCF)”, has made a familiarization tour in Egypt in October, 2011 to learn
from them on the best international practice
in consumer policy development approaches.
The study tour serves as an input towards
efforts to develope the draft “national Consumer Protection Policy Document” that will
coordinate and guide on the consumer protection issues in Tanzania and define the role of
the Government in the area. in the said study
tour FCC was represented by a Senior Consumer Protection Officer, Economist, Mr.
Utukufu Ezekiel Kyando.
Best practices in consumer protection
models are presently well developed in several developing countries including Egypt,
South africa, Ghana and Brazil.
The visit intended to provide an opportunity for the team to learn, at close range, institutional set up, regulatory trilogy, consumer
protection models, advocacy policies and best
practices currently implemented by Consumer Protection authority in Cairo. The lessons learnt provide valuable inputs for the
adoption and adaptation to our Proposed
Draft of national Consumer Protection Policy
(PDnCPP) and general practices in our day
to day consumer protection activities.
Prior to trade liberalization in 1986, which
was followed by the enactment of regulatory
and competition legislations between 2001
and 2003, Tanzania pursued a centrally
planned economy spearheaded by the arusha
Declaration of 1967, which, among others,
did not have in place neither an explicit consumer protection policy nor a unified piece of
legislation.
Provisions relating to consumer protection in Tanzania are still scattered in several
pieces of legislation to date. This makes it difficult for the average Tanzanian consumer to
know his or her rights as a consumer and
champion for the same. This, therefore,
means that a coherent Consumer Protection
Policy and a comprehensive regulatory
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 challenges. Such challenges call for a National Consumer Protection Policy.
regime for Consumer Protection are necessary ingredients in fostering consumer’s ability to make informed choices and exercise
their statutory and contractual rights and responsibilities as charted out by United nation
(Un) Guidelines for Consumer Protection in
1985.
Efforts in developing consumer protection
policy seek to bridge these historical gaps and
challenges encountered by Consumer Consultative Councils (CCCs) in adapting the
eight international consumer rights. The effort
will mainstream consumer protection and the
international consumer rights into a common
policy, legislative framework, effective enforcement mechanisms and comprehensive
redress system with coherent institutional
arrangements.
Development of consumer protection policy recognizes that consumers in the market
economy represent the weakest link and the
most disorganized players among key players
in the value exchange chain, (the other players
being the Government and supplier of goods
and services). The policy, which will be the
first since Tanzania’s independence, is expected to bring about effective consumer protection mechanisms and lead to the
empowerment of consumers in the various
product markets. Furthermore, the effort confirms the Country’s commitment to upholding
the international best practices in consumer
protection initiatives, which places a policy at
the driver’s seat in guiding legislative framework in the area.
The policy development process started
back in the financial year 2010/2011 and the
final draft is expected to be ready in the first
quarter of financial year 2011/2012, thereafter
the document will be submitted to the Government for adoption and further considerations of policy formulation procedures.
STAKEHOLDERS SEMINAR
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VICOBA Laud FCC’s Consumer
Awareness Campaigns
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.
By Utukufu Kyando
Senior Consumer Protection Officer
THE Village Community Bank (ViCOBa)
President Ms. Devota Likokola (MP) applauded the move taken by the Fair Competition Commission (FCC) in reaching rural
consumers through Consumer awareness
Campaign. She commends the move to ViCOBa branch managers on 6th December,
2011 when attending a seminar organized by
ViCOBa, TRa and FCC in Dar es Salaam.
according to ViCOBa President, ViCOBa currently has 6,700 groups with at least
30 members per group country wide. This is
to say, a total number of its member is more
than 201,000. She pointed out that the structure
and population of ViCOBa is a feasible and
strategic opportunity to the Fair Competition
Commission in dissemination of Consumer
Education and awareness Campaign to the
majority consumers.
FCC‘s Consumer Protection Department,
among other things, trained ViCOBa branch
managers on various issues of importance to
consumer protection such as the world history of consumer protection, evolution of
consumer protection in Tanzania, consumer
rights, consumer responsibilities, consumer
protection according to the Fair Competition
act, no 8. 2003, key consumer issues, effect
of counterfeit goods to consumers and to the
country’s economy, precautions to be taken
by consumers and the importance of financial literacy to consumers.
FCC is promoting the need to provide financial education to consumers and raising
their level of awareness as a means to equip
them to make better informed, considered
and rational choices in financial services.
Through financial literacy programs, consumers are expected to take more responsibility for their financial security since
financial products are becoming more complex and diverse. Currently, consumers are
offered a variety of credit and savings instruments both at home and across borders, provided by a range of entities from on-line
banks to other types of credit institutions and
brokers. This makes financial products
harder to understand and to compare; it also
increases the risk of buying an inappropriate
product.
The seminar opened up a new chapter of
collaboration between FCC and Community
Based Organizations this being an important
initiative to enhance the role of disseminating
Consumer Education to majority consumers.
ViCOBa and other nGO’s structure is efficient and effective forum of disseminating
Consumer Education to consumers in the
country.
FCC Participate in SADC Competition Roundtable Discussion
By Emmanuel J. Kaale
Head, Information Systems
and Services
THE Fair Competition Commission took
part in the Southern african Development
Cooperation (SaDC) Regional Meeting on
Competition Policy Programme in
Gaborone, Botswana from 27th to 28th november, 2011, which is an avenue for regional competition jurisdictions to share
experiences and challenges in implementing
Competition Policy and Law.
FCC was represented in the session by
the Director General, Dr. Geoffrey Mariki,
the Director of Research, Mergers and advocacy, Mr. allan Mlulla and the Head of
advocacy, Mr. Shadrack nkelebe.
The session was a result of the decision of
the 3rd meeting of the SaDC Committee on
Competition and Consumer Law and Policy
made in november, 2010 in Johannesburg,
South africa, that dedicated session of experts
on regional competition policy be organized
by the SaDC Secretariat.
The roundtable discussions focused on
three main issues, namely: Review of the
SaDC Competition Policy Programme, Consideration of the Harmonization Framework
and Cooperation with other Similar Regional
initiatives (EaC, COMESa and ECOWaS)
Having reviewed and discussed the two
consultants’ reports on modalities for cooperation and harmonization of national competition policies among SaDC Member States
SaDC Group of Experts on Competition, the
Group of Experts was of the view that competition policy and law is an integral component of regional integration process. The
Group of Experts also agreed on the need
for national competition authorities to continue their cooperation, which will ultimately lead to full harmonization and
convergence as called for under the Tripartite Federal Trade agreement. Similarly, the
already existing degree of cooperation and
harmonization among SaDC member states
with competition laws and enforcement
agencies was also acknowledged and appreciated. The group observed that there was a
satisfactory harmonization on competition
policy and law analytical tools, design of
remedies, capacity building and technical
assistance.
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CONSUMER ISSUES
FCC Handover Secretariat of African Dialogue
for Consumer Protection to Nigeria
Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Michael Shilla (then Director of Corporate and Consumer Affairs), presenting a paper at the 2nd Annual African Consumer Protection Dialogue at Ngurdoto Hotel in Arusha in 2010. FCC through the named Directorate was
charged with the duties of a secretariat to the African Consumer Protection Dialogue
for the year 2010/2011.
By Joshua Msoma
Senior Consumer Protection Officer
in the third annual african Dialogue Consumer Protection conference held in abuja,
nigeria from 13th to 15th September, 2011,
FCC handed over african Consumer Protection Dialogue Secretariat to nigerian Consumer Protection Commission (CPC) for the
year 2011/2012 as per arusha Resolutions of
the Second annual Conference of the african
Consumer Protection Dialogue held in 2010.
The Third annual african Dialogue Consumer Protection conference was held under
the theme “Generation next: Consumer Protection issues affecting Children and assess-
ing Online and Mobile payments Systems”.
The objective the third annual african
Dialogue conference was to confer consumer
protection organization across africa opportunities to share best practices and undertake
cross-border investigation of commercial activities that may affect consumers’ interest in
their respective countries.
The african Dialogue’s September, 2011
conference proved a resounding success. One
of the most significant outcomes was a revision of the priority initiatives for the african
Consumer Protection Dialogue. The most notable changes in the initiatives were in the following three areas:
firstly, the african Dialogue agreed to in-
corporate Regulatory Frameworks and Common Consumer Protection Challenges facing
children in africa. among other things the
african Dialogue underscored the importance of safeguarding children because they
are the future of every society and the leaders
of tomorrow. african Dialogue emphasized
that, whatever efforts geared in ensuring children’s well being is commendable, as this
will bring about sustainable development of
our society.
Secondly, in recognizing “sustainable
consumptions”, Consumer Protection agencies were encouraged to architect and advocate policies and campaign that seek to:
promote the adoption of consumption and
production patterns that safeguard human
rights and community well being; promoting
consumer products and services with tomorrow in view; promoting present consumption
and production patterns that do not damage
the future generation; avoiding social, economic and environmental ills; alerting consumers on the aggressive and fraudulent
commercial messages that cause environmental ills; and promote the establishment of
model for sustainable consumption programmes in main towns.
Lastly, in recognizing the various challenges caused by the complexity of financial
markets, Consumer Protection agencies were
encouraged to architect and advocate for policies that promote “financial literacy” and liaise and work with Central Banks to ensure
that before new banking products are offloaded to the market, such products do have
consumer friendly features as remedy mechanism to the existing weak financial consumer protection.
in the year 2009, Federal Trade Commission of USa, Fair Competition Commission
of Tanzania (FCC) and Consumer protection
agencies in africa spearheaded the initiation
of african Consumer Protection Dialogue,
with the objectives of exchanging consumer
protection experiences, information sharing
and best practices across the globe through
informal monthly teleconferencing among
several regional consumer protection agencies.
in the Second annual african Dialogue
on Consumer Protection Conference held in
arusha, Tanzania in July 2010, members appointed FCC to form the first african Dialogue (aD) secretariat for the year
2010/2011. The secretariat was chaired by
Mr. Michael Shilla (Director of Corporate affairs) as aD Executive Secretary and Mr.
Joshua Msoma (Senior Consumer Protection
Officer) as Deputy Executive Secretary.
NEWS IN PICTURES
News in Pictures
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Participants of the Mara Advocacy Seminar held at Afrilux Hotel in Musoma
in November, 2011 in a group photograph.
Participants in the Advocacy awareness seminar held in Morogoro in December, 2011, learning how to identify counterfeit goods. FCC’s Senior Consumer Protection Officer, Mr. Joshua Msoma (in white shirt) gives a
counterfeit identification demonstration.
Participants of the Mwanza Advocacy Seminar held at Gold Crest Hotel in
November, 2011 in a group photograph with the Mwanza Regional Commissioner, Hon. Eng. Evarist Welle Ndikilo.
Participants of the Morogoro Advocacy Seminar held at Nashera Hotel in
December, 2011 in a group photograph with the Morogoro Regional Commissioner, Hon. Joel N. Bendera.
FCC’s Head of Anti-counterfeit Enforcement Department, Mr. John
Mponela (l) speaking to the press during the 35th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fairs (DITF) on 2nd July, 2011. FCC held a Press conference
to sensitize members of the press on anti-counterfeit issues as well as general
issues relating to the Fair Competition Commission.
Participants in the Dodoma awareness seminar held at St. Gaspar Conference Centre, in December, 2011, following up proceedings of the seminar.