Thursday, 8 November 2012

On proportionality - AG Kokott's opinion in Case C-415/11 Aziz v Catalunyacaixa

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Today, Advocate General Kokott delivered her opinion in the case Aziz v Catalunyacaixa , which is currently pending before the Court of Ju...
Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Forever young

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Yesterday a conference took place in Brussels concerning active and healthy ageing. The European Innovation Partnership was called to lif...
Monday, 5 November 2012

Manipulating online search results

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Last week the European Consumer Organisation BEUC sent a letter to the Vice President of the European Commission, Joaquín Almunia, concern...
Friday, 2 November 2012

Let's be safe

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Part of consumer protection laws introduced in Europe deal with product liability and consumer safety. As of 1 November 2012 new set of suc...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Naughty Member States

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Last week the European Commission again let us know which countries infringe existing European consumer protection rules and what it was ...
Friday, 26 October 2012

Microsoft could lose up to 10% of annual turnover

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Another update concerns the previously mentioned European procedure against Microsoft ( Microsoft under investigation for limiting consum...

Towards removing hurdles to single market

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The European Parliament adopted yesterday a non-binding resolution addressing consumers' concerns with regards to the single market....
Thursday, 25 October 2012

European online marketplace

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The European Consumer Centre Network (ECC-Net) published a new report on cross-border e-commerce and consumers' experiences with it....
Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Getting ahead of themselves?

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Yesterday the European Parliament decided to make year 2013 the European Year of Citizens. The goal is to raise awareness of rights that ar...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Easy money

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In other news the European Commission communicated today its two-year plan to tackle online gambling (sports betting, poker, casino, lotter...