The president of GVH stood up for the interests of Hungarian consumers at the OECD conference in Paris

By: Trademagazin Date: 2024. 10. 09. 10:17

The OECD’s consumer protection committee organized a two-day high-level meeting in Paris, in which Balázs Csaba Rigó, the president of the Economic Competition Authority (GVH), also participated. In the framework of the professional conference, the participants discussed the issues of the digital and green transition from the point of view of consumer protection. Balázs Csaba Rigó emphasized at the conference: “The focus of the digital and green transition must clearly be on consumers and their interests. Consumers always come first!”

For the first time, the OECD Committee on Consumer Policy organized a high-level, so-called ministerial-level meeting between October 8 and 9, 2024, in Paris. During the two-day event, the participants discussed two main topics from the perspective of consumer protection, the digital transition and the green transition. During the conference, they examined the means by which consumers can be made the central players of digital development and the transition to a green and sustainable economy, so that development and individual measures serve the interests of consumers to the fullest extent possible.

On the first day of the event in Paris, the digital transition was at the center of the professional discourse. Balázs Csaba Rigó, the president of the GVH, explained in his speech:

“In recent years, the Hungarian national competition authority has paid more and more attention to the rise of the digital world. GVH has acted successfully against many global technology companies in recent years, such as Google, Apple, or TikTok.” The president of the GVH also underlined: “Our priority task is the in-depth investigation and knowledge of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, with this goal in mind we started a market analysis at the beginning of 2024, which we will finish soon.”