Category: Consumer Protection
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Dark Patterns Head the Autumn List for Digital Fairness Rules
Graz: A Commission study found that 97 per cent of popular websites and apps in…
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Green Claims Deadline Arrives With Old Stock Still on Shelves
Prato: In the warehouses of this Tuscan textile district there are cartons of jumpers printed…
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Green Claims Rules Reach Shelves Stocked Before the Deadline
Malmö: A bottle of shampoo manufactured in March, boxed in May and shelved in July…
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Vague Green Labels Become Unlawful Across the Union Next Sunday
Porto: On 27 September the words on a shampoo bottle stop being marketing and start…
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Product Liability Rules Arrive Before Most Capitals Are Ready
Bratislava: The Slovak parliament is working through a bill that will rewrite who pays when…
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Will Digital Fairness Arrive Before the Year Runs Out
Porto: Portuguese consumer groups filed their views on digital fairness almost a year ago. The…
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Software Makers Face Europe’s Product Liability Deadline in December
Brussels: Member states have less than twelve weeks to put Europe’s new product liability regime…
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Shoppers Get Their Green Claims Shield on 27 September
Rome: Europe’s rules on green claims start to bite on 27 September 2026, when Directive…
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Dark Patterns Face a Reckoning in the Commission’s Autumn Proposal
Turku: A Finnish student cancelling a streaming subscription last month clicked through four screens, declined…
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Durability Label Rules Hit Every EU Shop on 27 September
Retailers across the European Union have less than a fortnight before the durability label stops…
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Toys and Cosmetics Drive Product Safety Alerts to a Record High
Gdańsk: Containers arrive at the Baltic terminal in volumes that no inspectorate can open, and…
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Buy Now Pay Later Becomes Regulated Consumer Credit in November
Bonn: Europe’s rewritten consumer credit rulebook starts applying on 20 November 2026, and most national…
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Liability Rules Cover Software in December and Capitals Are Late
Graz: Engineers who write firmware for machines built in Styria’s industrial belt will fall under…
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Manipulative Checkout Design Faces Its Own Regulation Soon
Malmö: A shopper in this Swedish city who tries to cancel a streaming subscription clicks…
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Product Safety Sweep Clears Far More Marketplaces This Year
Market surveillance authorities across Europe screened nearly 1,700 online listings this summer, and the product…
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Chemicals Now Drive More European Product Alerts Than Anything Else
Pécs: Market surveillance officers in southern Hungary spend less time on sharp edges and small…
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Digital Fairness Act Slips to the Last Weeks of 2026
Consumers who fill in a cancellation form four screens deep, or watch a child work…
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Hungary Alone Has Passed Europe’s New Product Liability Rules
Budapest: Hungary remains the only EU country to have adopted legislation transposing the new product…
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Dark Pattern Rules Remain a Promise With One Quarter Left
Aarhus: Danish consumer officials have been documenting manipulative checkout flows for years, filing cases under…
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Credit Rules Apply in November Though Few Capitals Have Written Them
Maribor: A shopper splitting a 300-euro coat into four instalments at checkout will, from 20…
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Chemicals Top the Alert List as Product Warnings Hit a Record
Odense: Danish inspectors pulling toys from warehouse shelves are feeding a European alert system that…
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Software Becomes a Defective Product on 9 December
Tartu: A small Estonian firm that licenses fleet-management software to customers in nine member states…
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Addictive Design Faces a Law the Commission Has Not Written Yet
Tampere: Finnish researchers studying how teenagers use social platforms have contributed to a European consultation…
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Streaming Subscriptions Just Became Much Easier to Walk Away From
Salzburg: A dispute over whether a streaming package counts as content or as a service…