Press Release: Unfair commercial practices: Commission welcomes Parliament’s approval of new law

Markos Kyprianou, the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, welcomed the vote on 24 February 2005 by the European Parliament approving a new EU law to ban pressure selling and misleading marketing. The new legislation to harmonise Member States' rules on unfair commercial practices had been proposed by the Commission in June 2003 (see IP/03/857). It aimed to clarify consumers' rights and facilitate cross-border trade by establishing common, EU-wide rules against aggressive or misleading business-to-consumer marketing. The law was expected to be formally endorsed by the Council of Ministers in the weeks after the European Parliament's approval and to be implemented EU-wide by 2007.

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European Commission: DG Health and Consumer Protection: Consumer Affairs: Unfair commercial practices http://ec.europa.eu/comm/consumers/cons_int/safe_shop/fair_bus_pract/index_en.htm

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