Showing posts with label misleading practices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misleading practices. Show all posts
Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Price reductions to be determined on the basis of the ‘prior price’ (C-330/23 Aldi Süd)

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  Guest post by Laura Bakola (PhD candidate at Leiden University) In September the CJEU issued a judgment on price indications and the oblig...
Friday, 14 April 2023

Proposal for Green Claims Directive

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The second proposal published on March 22 by the European Commission was for a new Green Claims Directive ( COM/2023/166 final  - Directive...
Monday, 15 February 2021

Ali Express and European consumer law

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Since 2010, AliExpress has been connecting consumers outside of China with Chinese sellers willing to ship their products to their countries...
Friday, 17 July 2020

Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets to take action against fake online reviews

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At the end of last month, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) announced that it would be taking action against fake revie...
Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Volkswagen hit by a multi-million fine from the Polish consumer protection authority

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Last September we informed our readers about an interesting report from BEUC summarizing the developments in law enforcement following the...
Friday, 27 September 2019

Consumer law & the Kardashians

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The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recently banned three beauty advertisements, since the ads in question misled consumers and ...
Monday, 4 March 2019

Online platforms will be online platforms

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As we reported in October last year ( Combating online disinformation... ), the major online platforms operating in the EU (e.g. Facebook, ...
Thursday, 7 February 2019

More transparency on hotel booking websites?

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The UK's Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) announced yesterday that it has finalised its investigation into commercial practice...
Thursday, 18 October 2018

Combating online disinformation (aka fake news)

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This week representatives of online platforms (e.g. of Facebook, Google, Mozilla, Twitter), advertisers and advertising industry met with...
Wednesday, 25 July 2018

Can excessive information mislead consumers? CJEU rules in Dyson

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Earlier today the Court of Justice delivered a judgment in case C-632/16 Dyson . The judgment was a response to a request for a preliminary...
Friday, 13 July 2018

EU Parliament votes on dual quality products

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On the 12 th of July the EU Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), voted on the report by Olg...