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- Toys continue to top EU list of dangerous products
- The EU's latest report on its alert system to prevent the selling of dangerous products, published Tuesday, flagged up a record number of dangerous products in ... — last modified 09 July 2020, 00:07 CET — filed under: Headline2, Consumer, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- Energy Labelling Directive - Briefing
- The European Parliament today adopted the Energy Labelling Directive, a recast of the existing Labelling Directive which introduced the energy label for ... — last modified 20 May 2010, 00:41 CET — filed under: Energy, European Parliament, EU Law-environment, labelling, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Bank proposal on current account fee transparency - bold announcement, zero substance
- BEUC, the European Consumers’ Organisation, rejects EBIC’s (European Bank Industry Committee) plans to self-regulate the transparency and comparability of ... — last modified 21 November 2011, 15:53 CET — filed under: Banking, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- EU rules to help consumers repair their products
- Last night, the EU reached a deal on the right to repair proposal that will help consumers repair their goods more easily and use their products longer. BEUC ... — last modified 02 February 2024, 23:16 CET — filed under: Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Window covering cords can KILL
- The OECD Global Awareness Campaign on Window Covering Cord Safety runs from 23 to 30 June. ANEC joins OECD in wanting to ensure parents are aware of the risks ... — last modified 23 June 2016, 16:18 CET — filed under: Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- European Commission DG Health and Consumers Contacts
- Contacts of the European Commission Directorate-General for Health and Consumers. — last modified 21 January 2010, 12:46 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Commission, Consumer, Health — Relevance: 1%
- New restrictions on use of preservatives in cosmetic products
- The European Commission on 29 September further strengthened the protection of consumers, in particular babies and young children. It adopted two measures ... — last modified 29 September 2014, 21:39 CET — filed under: Health, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- EU set to clamp down on online scams
- EU ministers agreed Monday a general approach to strengthen cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection ... — last modified 21 February 2017, 13:47 CET — filed under: Headline1, Consumer, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- Commission's pharma package is important step forward but consumers will still need easier access to medicines
- The European Commission proposals published today to reform the EU's medicines and pharmaceutical legislation are a good step in the right direction by moving ... — last modified 26 April 2023, 23:52 CET — filed under: Pharmaceuticals, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- MasterCard: Statement of Objections on cross-border rules and inter-regional interchange fees
- The European Commission sent on 9 July a Statement of Objections to MasterCard. The Statement of Objections outlines the Commission's preliminary view that ... — last modified 09 July 2015, 13:44 CET — filed under: Consumer, Finance, Competition — Relevance: 1%
- European Commission proposes insufficient reform to fix broken retail investment market
- To tackle the underperformance of financial markets for consumers, the European Commission has proposed a partial ban on inducements to financial advisors in ... — last modified 24 May 2023, 22:00 CET — filed under: SMEs, Consumer, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- Consumers wrong-footed on environmental footprint
- ANEC has published a detailed critique of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a measure of environmental impacts: "Environmental assessment goes astray. A critique ... — last modified 03 February 2014, 18:16 CET — filed under: Environment, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- 2012 Report on Europe’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed
- An annual report published today on Europe’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) revealed that in 2012 almost 50% of notifications related to food and ... — last modified 10 June 2013, 18:26 CET — filed under: Food, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- General principles of food law - European Food Safety Authority
- The EU's legislation governing the general principles of food law and harmonised controls also underpins the European Food Safety Authority, a European agency ... — last modified 03 December 2009, 16:04 CET — filed under: EU Law, EU Law summaries, Food & Drink, safety, Consumer, EU legislation — Relevance: 1%
- EU Parliament votes to help consumers make greener choices
- Today the European Parliament has voted to help consumers make more sustainable choices, improving products' information and expected lifetime. The legislative ... — last modified 11 May 2023, 19:12 CET — filed under: Environment, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Commission antitrust decision obliges Amazon to give consumers more choice
- The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) welcomes the European Commission’s antitrust decision to accept commitments from Amazon to allow more competition on ... — last modified 22 December 2022, 00:02 CET — filed under: Consumer, Competition — Relevance: 1%
- EU travellers still not aware of their passenger rights
- Only 43% of EU citizens who have travelled by air, long-distance rail, coach, ship or ferry in the previous 12 months know that the EU has put in place rights ... — last modified 14 January 2020, 23:50 CET — filed under: Headline2, Consumer, Transport — Relevance: 1%
- EU to strengthen protection of high quality food and drink products
- EU Parliament and Council negotiators reached a provisional deal Tuesday to strengthen geographical indications (GIs) and other quality schemes for wine, ... — last modified 27 October 2023, 15:38 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Consumer, Headline2, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- Insurance products in EU set for new disclosure rules
- The European Commission laid down new rules Friday for an Insurance Product Information Document (IPID), which will have to accompany all non-life insurance ... — last modified 14 August 2017, 13:53 CET — filed under: Headline, Consumer, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- Commission reviews EU's animal welfare strategy
- The European Commission marked the mid-point of the EU's Strategy for the Protection and Welfare of Animals 2012-2015 last week at a conference in Brussels ... — last modified 20 February 2014, 18:31 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Consumer, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- SEPA: Broad range of stakeholders beginning to see huge problems
- SEPA (the Single European Payments Area) risks being a massive failure unless key issues are resolved, particularly regarding the security of the Direct Debit ... — last modified 24 February 2010, 00:15 CET — filed under: SMEs, Consumer, banking — Relevance: 1%
- Environment, consumers and health
- EU grants and loans for Environment, consumers and health - Consumers - Environment - Health - Maritime policy - Sustainable development — last modified 17 April 2011, 23:09 CET — filed under: Environment, Health, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Consumers
- Grants In the field of consumer policy. Grants are direct financial contributions, by way of donation, from the budget in order to finance either an action ... — last modified 15 January 2013, 21:46 CET — filed under: Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- EU adopts list of approved flavouring substances
- Flavouring substances in food will become even safer and more transparent thanks to two pieces of legislation adopted today by the European Commission. Only ... — last modified 02 October 2012, 14:12 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Health, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- EU nanotechnology plan: tiny focus on consumer protection
- Everyday products from clothes to children’s toys contain nanomaterials. Regrettably, the European Commission today disregarded calls from the European ... — last modified 03 October 2012, 19:23 CET — filed under: Research & Technology, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Consumers sidelined in Capital Markets Union
- Today, the European Commission has kicked off an action plan to reduce companies’ reliance on banks and diversify their funding sources across the EU’s 28 ... — last modified 30 September 2015, 16:42 CET — filed under: banking, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Europeans are not fully protected by EU rules for online gambling: study
- All EU member states, except Denmark, have not fully implemented EU consumer protection guidelines for online gambling, putting the protection of online ... — last modified 06 December 2018, 23:35 CET — filed under: Media, Gambling, Consumer, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- Protection of Geographical Indications and Designations of Origin
- This Regulation establishes the rules for protecting designations of origin and geographical indications for agricultural products and foodstuffs intended for ... — last modified 11 January 2010, 19:05 CET — filed under: EU Law, EU Law summaries, Food & Drink, Consumer, EU legislation — Relevance: 1%
- Major EU update of Data Protection laws: Consumers handed greater control of their data
- BEUC welcomes today’s proposed update of EU Data Protection laws by the European Commission. These will make European standards applicable to all companies ... — last modified 25 January 2012, 18:37 CET — filed under: Consumer, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- European Consumers' Organisation
- BEUC, the European Consumers' Organisation, acts as the umbrella group in Brussels for its members and its main task is to represent them at European level and ... — last modified 10 April 2024, 23:40 CET — filed under: Consumer — Relevance: 1%