First meeting of new FIN-USE forum

02 April 2004




The new expert forum FIN-USE held its first meeting last Friday. The forum will provide policy input to the European Commission on financial services issues from the point of view of users of consumers and SMEs.

The mandate of the FIN-USE forum is to deliver opinions on legislative initiatives affecting users of financial services and to identify key financial services issues which affect users in the Internal Market.

The 12 members of the group have been selected by the Commission. There are plans to expand the group by a further three experts over the course of this year in order to take account of the accession of 10 new EU Member States.

The forum will hold between four and six meetings per year in Brussels and will be assisted by the Commission, which will provide the secretariat and channel requests to the group.

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