CCC - Meeting with Pascual Ignacio NAVARRO RÍOS, State Secretary for the European Union, Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU

IMCO - INTA joint Committee - Vote on Forced Labour Ban

IMCO-INTA joint committee - Vote on Forced Labour Ban

Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

IMCO

Consumer rights (debate)

AGRI IMCO PETI public hearing - European Citizen's Initiative ' Fur Free Europe '

How much and what kind of information should food labels contain to allow consumers to make healthier dietary choices? The debate goes on.

Informed choices for consumers

50% fewer deaths by 2020 - MEPs want old-fashioned driver responsibility and smarter use of intelligent transport; and protecting consumers from dangerous imports.

The News: Cutting Road Deaths – Consumers First

The sharp hike in Tunisian immigrants tests European cooperation. MEPs call for tougher measures to stop falsified medicines reaching consumers.

The News: Migrant Upsurge – Fake Drugs

MEP Andreas Schwab (EPP) defended the draft law that aims to better protect EU consumers, which has been attacked by Europe’s left.

Interview: Better protection for consumers?

As Europeans increasingly shop online in other countries, it’s time to update rules on consumer rights too think MEPs.

﻿Consumer rights 2.0

Shopping online will soon be safer, as MEPs update consumer rights. For retired people to be able to lead dignified lives, pension schemes need to be reformed.

The News: Consumer rights - Pension schemes reform

Increase deficits or cut budgets? Europeans are divided over how to save the euro. Improving protection for online shoppers.

The News: Eurozone crisis -  Consumer Rights

How can the EU raise consumer confidence in online shopping and realize the internet’s potential as a gateway for crossborder trade?

Protecting Consumers

Statements by Vincent VAN QUICKENBORNE, Belgian Minister, Michel BARNIER, European Commissioner on Internal Market Malcolm HARBOUR (ECR, UK), Chair of the Internal Market and C and Louis GRECH (S&D, MT) after the Single Market Forum at the Committee Consumer Protection, in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Single Market Forum: statements

This infoclip shows food in differents places: ready-to-eat food department in a supermarket, a kebab restaurant, a school canteen. A patient visiting the doctor in a hospital in Belgium.

Infoclip: Consumer protection - Food labelling

Financial supervision, securing gas supplies and protecting consumers from dodgy drugs are all up for debate in next week's plenary.

What's in store in Strasbourg

Ads are creeping into our private lives via social networks and the like. MEPs are not buying it, they want to change laws to protect consumers' from this intrusion.

Advertising peeping toms

Do we even understand what these products protect us against? And how much protection do they really offer? Is human testing ethical?

Reporter: Can consumers trust sun protection labels?

CAP funding post-2013 will be based on today's spending levels says the Italian MEP and agricultural economics professor. Reforms will move CAP beyond production and consumer safety goals.

We support a strong CAP - Giovanni La Via

MEPs make their predictions for the World Cup final - their money is on a European team of course. Consumers' rights protection are to get a boost.

The News: World Cup fever - Consumers' rights

Satisfaction guaranteed - that's what MEPs want for EU consumers buying by post. A new directive is underway to protect consumers' rights.

Buying rights

During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs vote on food information to consumers.

Food information to consumers: extracts from the vote

Wouldn't you want to know when a sandwich is more fatty than a Big Mac? MEPs think so. But EU institutions are divided on food labels to help consumers make the right choice.

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