Friday, 31 May 2013

Free medical assistance abroad not being enforced

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The enforcement of European consumer protection rules is still less than ideal in many Member States. One of the benefits that was introduc...
Thursday, 30 May 2013

Unfair terms, ECJ reaffirms important principles

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In two cases delivered today the Court of Justice had the chance to confirm its previous case law and add a new tile to the (ascertained) c...

Keeping up to date on European regulatory private law

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Would you like to receive more news about developments in European private law, such as e-mail alerts regarding recent judgments of the Cou...

Food fit for Europeans

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The European Parliament also negotiated a deal with the Council on new labelling rules and content of such consumers products as baby mil...

Trying for better clinical trials

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Yesterday, the Public Health Committee endorsed new draft EU rules on clinical trials of new medicines. Since the past years showed a decl...

Back to the data protection in the EU

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Another controversial subject is the ongoing EU data protection reform. The EDPS just published his annual report for 2012 and warned the...

The heat is on... new air passengers rights

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Yesterday at the European Parliament the MEPs met with representatives of airlines and air passenger organisations to discuss new proposed ...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Plain packaging of tobacco products

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Yesterday the Irish government has approved the drafting of legislation for generic packaging for tobacco, which means that Ireland will ...

Financial complaints in the British Isles

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The British Financial Ombudsman Service ( FOS ) published an annual report documenting its work in settling disputes between consumers and...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Europe's drugs problem

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An annual report was published today by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction ( EMCDDA ) on the state of the drug pr...