Misplaced Pages

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "PROFECO" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article reads like a press release or a news article and may be largely based on routine coverage. Please help improve this article and add independent sources. (January 2019) This page's infobox may require expansion, verification, or otherwise need cleanup. Please make sure that the infobox meets Misplaced Pages's guidelines for infoboxes. There might be relevant comments on the talk page. You may also want to view the infobox template page to view the full parameter list and read guidance on usage of that infobox. (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer

Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor
Official logo for the2012-18 sexenio
Offices in Mexico City
Agency overview
Formed	February 5, 1976; 48 years ago (1976-02-05)
Jurisdiction	Federal government of Mexico
Headquarters	Avenida José Vasconcelos 208, Colonia Condesa, Cuauhtémoc, 06140 Mexico City, Mexico 19°24′48.6″N 99°10′49.9″W / 19.413500°N 99.180528°W / 19.413500; -99.180528
Website	www.gob.mx/profeco

The Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor, or Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer (PROFECO, for short), is an organization of the Mexican government led by on the Attorney General. Mexico became the second Latin American nation to pass a Federal Consumer Protection Law, on February 5, 1976, and later became the first to create an Office for the Prosecutor. By 1982, the Office had 32 representations, one in each state and one in the Federal District. PROFECO has in total 51 offices all over the republic, and its main office is in Mexico City. The most recent reform of this federal law was signed by the Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto at the beginning of 2018.

PROFECO works together with other organizations like CPSC (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) from the United States. and Health Canada from Canada to guarantee that imported products are safe for consumers. 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 and North American consumers. The representative of PROFECO in this meeting was the attorney Rogelio Cerda Perez, who 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): 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
• Canada–Mexico relations
• Mexico–United States relations
• Toy safety
• El Buen Fin

References

1. ^ "Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor | Gobierno | gob.mx". www.gob.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-19.
2. "DECRETO por el que se reforman y adicionan diversas disposiciones de la Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor". 2018-11-01.
3. "Gale - Product Login". link.galegroup.com. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
4. Commission, U.S. Consumer Product Safety. "North America Product Safety Regulators Agree to Increase Cooperation on Consumer Product Safety; Trilateral MOU Signed at Annual Meeting of Multi-Stakeholder Association". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2018-10-23. Profeco Contact: 1 877 209 2681
5. "Ex delegado del PRI en Puebla es nombrado nuevo titular de la PROFECO" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-23.
6. DGI. "Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor". www.profeco.gob.mx. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
7. "¿Qué hacemos?". Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-11-05.
8. "El Buen Fin 2018". www.elbuenfin.org. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
9. "Quién es Quién en los Precios". Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-24.
10. Consumidor, Procuraduría Federal del. "Revista del Consumidor". gob.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-11-07.
11. "Revista del Consumidor septiembre 2018". Issuu. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
12. "Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor | Gobierno | profecogobmx.com/". www.profecogobmx.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-24.

External links

• Official website
• https://www.cpsc.gov/content/cpsc-profeco-and-health-canada-issue-joint-statement-on-the-fourth-north-america-product
• https://elbuenfin.profeco.gob.mx/

v t e Law enforcement in Mexico
Federal	Attorney General Policía Federal Ministerial National Guard PROFECO Secretariat of Public Security of Mexico City
State	Tamaulipas State Police Yucatán State Police
Defunct	Federal Police Grupo de Operaciones Especiales

This article about an organization in Mexico is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Federal law enforcement agencies of Mexico
• Prosecution services
• Consumer rights agencies
• Mexican organization stubs