Thursday, 28 June 2012

Environmentally friendly food - new EU logo helps in recognition of organic products

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Another interesting news for consumers: as of 1 July 2012 also the new EU organic logo becomes obligatory on  all pre-packaged organic f...

Holiday savings - new roaming rules into force on 1 July

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Today, the European Commission published a press release on the new EU rules on roaming charges that will come into force on 1 July 2012. ...
Wednesday, 27 June 2012

NO to ACTA... almost there

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Just a short update on ACTA (see last: ACTA under more fire ). Next week the European Parliament will have to decide whether to accept or...
Monday, 25 June 2012

Inducement in doorstep selling contracts

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In the last week's European news we could read about an action taken against Germany by the European Commission, urging Germany to st...
Sunday, 24 June 2012

Mandatory eCalls (EU life-saving system)?

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Last year we mentioned that the European Commission issued a recommendation to mobile phone operators asking them to transmit eCalls proper...

Wanted: innovation

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Last week the European Commission has launched a public consultation which would enable it to determine what kind of EU-level actions to ...
Thursday, 21 June 2012

You take the plane, and I'll take the train - on uniform passenger rights

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Since I've been mostly travelling in the past month (the photo is one of the favourite ones I took in Mexico City), it's nice to fi...

Challenges of air travel

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Most of us take it for granted that we can reach any destination within a frame of few hours, making use of advanced air travel options. Ho...

Can ECCs help you as well?

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In 2011, over 70 000 consumers received free advice and assistence from the European Consumer Centres Network. The centres, established i...
Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Outdoing Huxley

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Data protection is high on the agenda of the European Commission, as is attested by the pending proposals for reforming the existing EU dat...