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- Final approval for EU rules to curb power of tech giants
- EU ministers gave final approval Tuesday to the Digital Markets Act, a key set of obligations to ensure the tech giant companies do not stifle innovative ... — last modified 18 July 2022, 23:41 CET — filed under: Headline1, Consumer, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- ACTA vote in European Parliament
- Following today’s rejection of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in a vote by Members of the European Parliament (478 against, 39 in favour, 165 ... — last modified 05 July 2012, 23:27 CET — filed under: Consumer, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- Brussels requests data information from online giants
- Google, Amazon and Facebook were among 17 large online services to receive information requests from the European Commission Thursday under the EU's Digital ... — last modified 18 January 2024, 23:02 CET — filed under: Headline2, Consumer, Data protection, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- EBF supports EU Consumer Financial Services Plan
- The European Banking Federation wishes to express its support for the Consumer Financial Services Action Plan presented today by the European Commission. — last modified 23 March 2017, 22:10 CET — filed under: Consumer, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- EU agrees new rules for spirit drinks
- EU institutions reached a political agreement Tuesday on new rules for the production and labelling of spirit drinks and for the registration and protection of ... — last modified 29 November 2018, 15:56 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Headline1, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Revised packaging rules put additional constraint on SMEs
- SMEunited disagrees with the policy option to put all responsibility on economic operators to comply with the new obligations on packaging and packaging waste. ... — last modified 30 November 2022, 23:51 CET — filed under: Environment, SMEs, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Brussels mulls revision of Late Payment Directive
- The European Commission launched an open public consultation Friday to collect information on late or unfair payment practices and payment behaviour in ... — last modified 23 January 2023, 23:55 CET — filed under: SMEs, Headline2, Consumer, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- Consumer rights: what the new EU rules will mean
- An EU-wide right for consumers to change their minds about a purchase made on line within two weeks after having received the good, new requirements that ... — last modified 22 June 2011, 20:25 CET — filed under: Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- More consumer friendly labelling for European foods - guide
- On 22 June 2011, EU Member States confirmed the compromise that was hammered out by the Hungarian Presidency with the European Parliament (EP), on the way food ... — last modified 22 June 2011, 20:45 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- The impact of faster payments: crucial for SMEs
- SMEunited has been advocating the correct payment terms for decades. Late payments endanger the continuity of SME activities. The report on the impact of ... — last modified 26 September 2022, 23:52 CET — filed under: SMEs, Consumer, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- Bringing VAT rules to business realities of the 21st century
- The European Commission published today proposals on the VAT in the digital age initiative. EuroCommerce Director General Christel Delberghe commented: — last modified 08 December 2022, 22:04 CET — filed under: SMEs, Taxation, Consumer, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- New EU VAT rules to simplify e-commerce
- New Value-Added Tax rules for online shopping enter into force on 1 July with a view to ensuring a more level playing field for all businesses and to ... — last modified 28 June 2021, 22:18 CET — filed under: Headline1, SMEs, Taxation, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Appetite to know: Europeans want food origin labelling
- The origin is one of the key criteria for consumers when buying food. These are the results of a survey on origin labelling presented today in Brussels by The ... — last modified 24 January 2013, 11:11 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- EU agrees revisions on hazardous substances in electrical equipment
- The EU Council and Parliament reached provisional agreement Wednesday on a proposal for a revised directive on the use of certain hazardous substances in ... — last modified 23 June 2017, 00:09 CET — filed under: Chemicals, Headline2, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- 10 years on from the first inefficient light bulb ban, consumers have saved up to €1,330
- In the decade after EU rules on energy-efficient lighting kicked in, the average European household has saved up to €1,330 - the equivalent combined price of a ... — last modified 29 August 2019, 18:18 CET — filed under: Environment, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Consumer groups launch complaints against Meta's massive, illegal data processing behind its pay-or-consent smokescreen
- Eight consumer groups from the BEUC network are today filing complaints with their national data protection authorities against Meta, on the basis the tech ... — last modified 29 February 2024, 18:46 CET — filed under: Consumer, Data protection, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- Discriminatory Slovak retail tax hurts consumers - EuroCommerce files official complaints
- EuroCommerce has lodged two complaints to the European Commission against a new tax on retailers (Act No. 595/2003). — last modified 04 February 2019, 16:24 CET — filed under: Slovakia, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Retail Market Monitoring Report
- The European Commission has adopted a report that identifies key issues potentially hampering more efficient and fairer retail services within the Internal ... — last modified 06 July 2010, 10:59 CET — filed under: SMEs, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Enhanced Consumer Protection - the Services Directive 2006/123/EC
- With on-line sales booming before Christmas, consumers still face discrimination when buying services cross-border, according to the latest report from ... — last modified 05 December 2013, 23:33 CET — filed under: Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- EU consumers' 'right to repair' becomes reality
- The European Parliament gave its formal go-ahead Tuesday to new 'right to repair' rules aimed at helping consumers repair their goods easily and make their ... — last modified 23 April 2024, 23:56 CET — filed under: Environment, Headline, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Online shopping rules aim to end geo-blocking
- New EU rules on online shopping, provisionally agreed by the EU institutions Monday, mean that online buyers of goods or services from another EU country must ... — last modified 23 November 2017, 22:57 CET — filed under: Headline2, Consumer, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- Europe's digital future must benefit consumers
- In response to the European Commission's artificial intelligence (AI) initiative and data strategy - both presented today - The European Consumer Organisation ... — last modified 19 February 2020, 16:54 CET — filed under: Consumer, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- Retailers ask for rising card fees to be tackled in Interchange Fee Regulation
- Commerce Director-General Christian Verschueren commented today on the publication of an Ernst & Young study for the European Commission on the effectiveness ... — last modified 13 March 2020, 21:45 CET — filed under: SMEs, Consumer, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- EU ecodesign and energy labels under auditors' scrutiny
- The European Court of Auditors said Wednesday it is assessing the contribution EU measures for ecodesign and the energy labelling of products make to EU energy ... — last modified 20 March 2019, 18:35 CET — filed under: Environment, Energy, Headline2, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- Major EU law to ban carbon neutral claims and help consumers make sustainable choices
- Consumers will be granted new rights to help them make more sustainable choices following a deal struck yesterday by European legislators on the 'Empowering ... — last modified 20 September 2023, 23:25 CET — filed under: Environment, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- E-commerce in the EU: How you can make the most out of it as a consumer
- The Internet has transformed the way we shop. However, persistent online barriers prevent us from enjoying the full access to the goods and services being ... — last modified 25 October 2018, 18:19 CET — filed under: Consumer, Finance, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- Major Commission proposal to revamp Consumer Credit Directive to the benefit of consumers
- Consumers are set to gain much-needed extra protections when they take out a loan, according to proposals the European Commission published today. With many ... — last modified 30 June 2021, 18:48 CET — filed under: SMEs, Consumer, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- Sweep Investigations: 2009 Sweep on electronic goods (second phase) - guide
- n "EU sweep" is a joint EU investigation and enforcement action to check for compliance with consumer protection laws. — last modified 16 September 2010, 23:12 CET — filed under: SMEs, Consumer, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- New Deal for Consumers
- The European Commission proposed on 11 April a New Deal for Consumers to ensure that all European consumers fully benefit from their rights under Union law. — last modified 12 April 2018, 00:24 CET — filed under: Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- EU Commission encourages governments to tackle rising food prices to support less affluent consumers
- In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its serious implications for agri-food markets, the European Commission has just published a new ... — last modified 23 March 2022, 18:02 CET — filed under: Food & Drink, Consumer, Agriculture, Ukraine — Relevance: 1%