Category: Consumer Protection
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GARAN Label Lands on 27 September With No Grace Period
The GARAN label becomes compulsory across the Union on 27 September 2026, and traders who…
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Addictive Design Waits on a Proposal Due in the Final Quarter
Tartu: The European Commission has promised a Digital Fairness Act in the fourth quarter of…
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Unproven Green Claims Become Unlawful Across Europe This Month
Milan: Green claims stop being a marketing decision and become a legal one on 27…
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Software Becomes a Product in December and One Capital Is Ready
Graz: Product liability law across Europe changes on 9 December, and by early summer exactly…
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PFAS Limits Now Travel With Every Food Wrapper Sold in Europe
Chemical limits took over Europe’s food packaging aisle on 12 August, and most shoppers will…
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Dark Patterns Now Face a Law Nobody Has Finished Writing
Aarhus: The European Commission is closing the preparatory phase on the Digital Fairness Act and…
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Lawmakers Want Burger Added to Europe’s Protected Meat Words
Shoppers reaching for a plant-based patty this autumn will notice nothing new on the packet,…
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Dark Patterns Face the EU Digital Fairness Act
Dark patterns, addictive feeds and undisclosed influencer deals are about to become a matter of…
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Chatbots Must Now Say They Are Machines and Nobody Agrees How
Turin: Since 2 August anyone in the bloc dealing with a customer service bot, a…
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Product Liability Now Follows Software Into the Cloud
Malmö: A Swedish start-up selling diagnostic software to physiotherapy clinics spent this summer rewriting its…
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What the Digital Fairness Act Will Ask of Influencers
Consumer lawyers have spent a year arguing about what the Digital Fairness Act should cover.…
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Repair Rights Arrived in July but 27 Different Laws Define Them
Graz: The independent workshops that fix washing machines here have been waiting two years for…
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Product Liability Rules Reach Software Before Capitals Are Ready
Brussels: Europe’s rewritten product liability regime starts biting on 9 December, and most national parliaments…
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A Repair Score Is Coming and Nobody Has Agreed How to Count It
Brussels: European consumers will eventually see a repair score on the products they buy, but…
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Digital Fairness Now Has a Deadline but Still No Draft Text
A law that does not exist yet is already shaping how companies build their apps.…
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Dark Patterns Sit on Almost Every Site Europe Plans to Regulate
Aarhus: A shopper cancelling a subscription on a Danish retail app this week clicked through…
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Shoppers Get a New Guarantee Label Before Retailers Are Ready
Poznań: Appliance retailers here have barely five weeks to rewrite their shelf edges, because the…
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Streaming Subscriptions Just Lost Their Withdrawal Right Exemption
Vienna: A ruling that turns on the difference between a film and a film library…
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Regulating the Checkout Button Is Harder Than Banning Pop-Ups
Rotterdam: A 2022 Commission study found that 97% of the most popular websites and apps…
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Green Claims Rules Bite in September and Twenty Capitals Are Late
Dublin: Irish traders will face the EU’s new green claims regime on 27 September with…
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Can One Guidance Document Cover Every Botanical in the Food Chain
Bologna: Plant extracts occupy an odd corner of European food law. A capsule of concentrated…
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Repair Rules Now Apply and Nobody Agrees What They Mean
Berlin: Europe’s repair rules started applying on 31 July 2026, and a manufacturer selling across…
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Supply Constraints Face Rules Competition Law Cannot Reach
Supply constraints imposed by large manufacturers have survived four decades of single market law, and…
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Dark Patterns Face Rules the Commission Has Not Written Yet
Porto: Online retailers based in this Portuguese city price the same product differently for different…