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The European Commission will publish tomorrow its proposal for a Digital Fairness Act (DFA), a long-awaited initiative to strengthen consumer protection against unfair commercial practices online. The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) supports the proposal, which will introduce clearer guardrails.
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From 1 November 2026, the EU will introduce a two-euro handling fee on small parcels ordered from outside the Union. The European Consumer Organisation, BEUC, welcomes the measure as a crucial step to give customs authorities the means to improve safety checks on the flood of e commerce parcels entering Europe every day.
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Today, the European Commission announced that Danone has agreed to change some of its labelling practices, the last company flagged in BEUC’s greenwashing complaint to do so. BEUC and its members denounced Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Danone in November 2023, with the support of Client Earth and ECOS, for including misleading recyclability claims in bottled water. Until now, only Coca-Cola and then Nestlé had committed to make changes.
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New research from Assembly Research, commissioned by BEUC, shows that privacy has real economic value and that strong enforcement of the GDPR benefits not only consumers, but businesses and the wider European economy. Strong rights help build the trust and confidence that a healthy digital economy depends on.