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- European Parliament adopts new EU law to cut farm antimicrobial use
- Today, the plenary of the European Parliament adopted a long-awaited law which will restrict the use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals and thus help ... — last modified 25 October 2018, 13:23 CET — filed under: Consumer, Agriculture, Health — Relevance: 1%
- European Parliament committee vote on clean car rules is 'good', needs more ambition to be 'great'
- The European Parliament's Environment Committee voted on proposed new targets to reduce CO2 emissions from cars. — last modified 12 May 2022, 00:01 CET — filed under: Environment, Cars, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- European Parliament basic bank account vote - a life-belt for millions of consumers
- The European Parliament today voted for binding European rules to make basic payment accounts available to all EU consumers. These should offer most basic ... — last modified 04 July 2012, 18:47 CET — filed under: Banking, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Consumer groups call on regulators to investigate generative AI risks & enforce existing legislation
- Consumer groups from 13 European countries are alerting their national authorities to launch urgent investigations into the risks of generative AI, such as ... — last modified 21 June 2023, 00:02 CET — filed under: Consumer, Data protection, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- European Parliament greenlights institutional greenwashing of consumers' investments and pensions
- The European Parliament has given its green light to the European Commission's plans to label nuclear energy and fossil gas as 'green investments'. For BEUC, ... — last modified 06 July 2022, 18:54 CET — filed under: Finance, Consumer, Energy, Environment, SMEs — Relevance: 1%
- EU Parliament wants rail passenger rights beefed up
- The European Parliament today voted to upgrade rail passenger rights. — last modified 15 November 2018, 21:04 CET — filed under: railways, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- BEUC urges EU to resist pressure to dilute state aid rules
- The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has written today to the European Commission’s Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager to express BEUC’s concern ... — last modified 14 February 2023, 23:25 CET — filed under: Consumer, Competition — Relevance: 1%
- New EU roaming price caps from July 1
- Phone calls, SMS texts and data usage costs when roaming within the EU will be further axed from July 1. — last modified 26 June 2013, 17:15 CET — filed under: Tourism, Consumer, Telecoms — Relevance: 1%
- A big step closer to group actions anywhere in the EU
- The European Parliament has confirmed in a plenary vote today that it wants citizens in all EU countries to be able to go to court as a group if a company has ... — last modified 26 March 2019, 14:09 CET — filed under: EU Law, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- European Parliament adopts unambitious Energy Efficiency Directive
- Today the European Parliament passed the EU Energy Efficiency Directive which sets energy savings targets for providers. Energy companies will be required to ... — last modified 11 September 2012, 14:07 CET — filed under: Energy — Relevance: 1%
- Food from cloned animals: consumers left in the dark - BEUC
- Despite European consumers having no appetite for food from cloned animals or their offspring, they might be eating it unawares. Today’s European Commission ... — last modified 19 December 2013, 21:10 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Consumer, Agriculture — Relevance: 1%
- EP vote on fish labelling
- In a disappointing vote, the European Parliament rejected the new rules on fish labelling proposed by the European Commission as part of the EU Common ... — last modified 12 September 2012, 17:47 CET — filed under: Fisheries — Relevance: 1%
- BEUC comments on major tech legislation (DMA/DSA) that will boost consumer choice and online protection
- The European Parliament has approved a set of major new rules today which will benefit consumers by creating a legal framework for Big Tech, platforms and ... — last modified 05 July 2022, 23:40 CET — filed under: Media, Consumer, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- Consumers could be fully reimbursed for payment fraud according to European Parliament vote
- Consumers could be fully reimbursed if they become a victim of an impersonation scam according to a vote in the European Parliament’s ECON Committee today. — last modified 14 February 2024, 23:47 CET — filed under: Consumer, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- EU Contract law - MEPs on the wrong track
- The European Parliament votes this week Wednesday 8 on a report by MEP Diana Wallis (UK) supporting the European Commission’s proposal for a European contract ... — last modified 06 June 2011, 16:22 CET — filed under: Consumer, EU Law - contract — Relevance: 1%
- Dangerous consumer goods found in high numbers in EU
- In 2017, more than 2,000 non-food products failing safety requirements were notified to the EU’s rapid alert system (RAPEX). This figure might however only ... — last modified 12 March 2018, 15:52 CET — filed under: Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- EU presents plans to repair car testing
- The European Commission presented its plans on 27 January for overhauling the framework to approve cars in the European Union. — last modified 27 January 2016, 17:51 CET — filed under: Environment, Cars, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- "New Deal for Europe's Energy Consumers" sees light of day
- Helping consumers to get a better energy deal is the core of a number of initiatives announced by the European Commission today. This New Deal outlines the way ... — last modified 16 July 2015, 00:09 CET — filed under: Energy, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- No home run for home loans (BEUC)
- The European Parliament voted today to adopt first-time, Europe-wide laws protecting people taking home loans. — last modified 11 September 2013, 20:29 CET — filed under: Consumer, Finance — 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%
- 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%
- 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%
- 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 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%
- 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%
- Volkswagen settles in the United States
- The settlement of Volkswagen with US consumers and government regulators has been announced. — last modified 30 June 2016, 08:30 CET — filed under: Environment, Cars, Germany, USA — Relevance: 1%