Are you a recent graduate🎓with an interest in EU #ConsumerRights and #ConsumerProtection?
📝Apply for a 5-month #EUTraineeship @EU_Consumer (the Directorate General for Justice & Consumers)
📅Deadline is 31 August
➡️https://traineeships.ec.europa.eu

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Consumer/status/1689214940937433088

United Kingdom: the country in which making a websites turns even the lowliest political con man into a "leading #consumer champion".

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/30/nigel-farage-coutts-planning-new-website-to-help-people-denied-accounts-by-banks

#UK #NigelFarage #ConsumerProtection #privacy #banking

Working together to strengthen #ConsumerProtection in the financial services sector.
@EU_Commission & @CFPB have agreed to start an informal dialogue to exchange experiences, share insights & cooperate on issues affecting consumers in both the 🇪🇺 & 🇺🇸
➡️https://commission.europa.eu/document/9ea1876d-1e0f-429d-be1f-97def3a210a3_en https://t.co/4iuHpf5AFt

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Consumer/status/1680977748783767552

#ConsumerProtection
@EU_Commission asks Member States to speed up adoption of national measures to implement the EU Representative Actions Directive.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/inf_23_3445

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Consumer/status/1679844894326530048

Good news for passengers!
Following a dialogue with the 🇪🇺 Commission & national consumer authorities, major online travel agencies commit to
➡️refunds within 14 days for cancelled flights
➡️better informing consumers of their rights on cancelled flights
#PassengerRights https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Consumer/status/1673633554515783680
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EU Consumer Affairs: #ConsumerProtection
@eDreams_ODIGEO, #Etraveli Group &amp; @kiwicom247 have committed to:
✈️better inform consumers of their rights in case of flight cancellations
✈️transfer ticket refunds to consumers within 7 days of receiving them from the airlines
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_3521 https://t.co/eYLOVnMwKf
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1674034502383837184

#ConsumerProtection
@eDreams_ODIGEO, #Etraveli Group &amp; @kiwicom247 have committed to:
✈️better inform consumers of their rights in case of flight cancellations
✈️transfer ticket refunds to consumers within 7 days of receiving them from the airlines
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_3521 https://t.co/eYLOVnMwKf

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Consumer/status/1673633554515783680

RT CEER
#EUSEW2023: CEER WG Coordinator Irama Zamora stresses that we need targeted measures to help vulnerable #consumers &amp; combat #energypoverty. Besides #affordability, consumers can also be #empowered through their voice &amp; redress mechanisms.
#JustTransition #ConsumerProtection https://t.co/orX4XunnIU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CEERenergy/status/1671515126988406785

📢Calling #ConsumerProtection experts
We're designing a campaign for 🇺🇦Ukrainian refugees to raise awareness about 🇪🇺 #ConsumerRights &amp; we need your input.
Join us for discussions
📅29-30 June
💻online or in-person in🇧🇪Brussels
Register to attend
➡️https://commission.europa.eu/events/making-daily-life-easier-displaced-ukrainians-eu-consumer-rights-2023-06-29_en https://t.co/XdnSV8s5H4

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Consumer/status/1671089088387067904

Danes so v veljavo stopila 🆕 #EUProductSafety pravila, ki gredo v korak s hitro spreminjajočim se, digitalnim svetom.

Podjetja bodo lahko prodajala le izdelke, ki so varni za potrošnike, nevarni proizvodi pa bodo sledljivi na 🌍ravni & umaknjeni s trga. 🔗👇#ConsumerProtection

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EKvSloveniji/status/1668227136375627776

Four key hurdles for would-be owners of heat pumps in Europe https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/four-key-hurdles-for-would-be-owners-of-heat-pumps-in-europe/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BEUC #consumerprotection #Germany #heatpump #smartgrid

Read more:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_23_3123

#ConsumerProtection

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Consumer/status/1666402023120535552

We welcome provisional agreement to modernize EU rules for financial services contracts concluded at distance.
This will ensure a high level of #ConsumerProtection for consumers concluding such contracts online, including for new financial services that might come onto the market

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Consumer/status/1666402015906349058

#InTodaysOJ Decision 2023/1096 laying down rules for the application of Directive 2013/29 as regards the regular collection and updating of data on accidents related to the use of #pyrotechnic articles

🎇 https://europa.eu/!ckFhny

#ConsumerProtection #fireworks #productsafety

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EURLex/status/1665976142728134661

#Throwback to the 2023 European Consumer Summit that took place on 28 March in Brussels.

Interested in the main takeaways of this event on #ConsumerProtection, product safety, and sustainable consumption?

Check out our report ⤵️

https://european-consumer-summit-2023.eu/page-3541

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/dreynders/status/1662086486261366784

Good first exchange with Ramona Pop (@RamonaPop), 🇩🇪 Executive Director  @VZBV, on the #newconsumeragenda as well as the ongoing and upcoming legislatives files. @EU_Commission @EU_Consumer #consumerprotection #greendeal #digital fairness

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/dreynders/status/1661301225285992448

📢 Europe is strengthening consumer protection with the General Product Safety Regulation #GPSR now published in the #OfficialJournal

It will reinforce the safety rules for products sold both offline and online.
👉 https://europa.eu/!tnrhF3

#ProductSafety #ConsumerProtection

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EURLex/status/1660913630785699840

EU Court issues ‘prudent’ ruling on compensation for data protection breaches https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-privacy/news/eu-court-issues-prudent-ruling-on-compensation-for-data-protection-breaches/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AustrianPostcase #consumerprotection #ECJ #GDPR #infrigement

Cookie fatigue: The questions facing the EU Commission initiative https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-privacy/news/cookie-fatigue-the-questions-facing-the-eu-commission-initiative/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AdTech #consumerprotection #cookies #dataprotection #DidierReynders

.@NintendoEurope accepte de proposer la réparation gratuite des manettes de la Nintendo Switch touchées par un bug de réactivité, suite à une alerte émise par @beuc, @EU_Commission &les autorités de protection des consommateurs de l'UE
https://europa.eu/!yQPhpf
#ConsumerProtection
RT @dreynders: I welcome @NintendoEurope commitment to 🇪🇺#ConsumerProtection by:

➡️offering all consumers the #Right2Repair Nintendo Switch controllers (affected by the "Joy-Con drift"…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU4BE/status/1643274298038140928

I welcome @NintendoEurope commitment to 🇪🇺#ConsumerProtection by:

➡️offering all consumers the #Right2Repair Nintendo Switch controllers (affected by the "Joy-Con drift") free of charge

➡️repairing controllers even beyond the legal guarantee

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/EN/ip_23_2106

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/dreynders/status/1643250872326197250