Press releases

Today, the EU Parliament formally adopted ambitious rules to help consumers repair their goods easily and make their products last longer. BEUC, who has supported and contributed to this important commitment from the outset, hails the votes as a consumer win.

The report published today by Enrico Letta from the Jacques Delors Institute is a welcome effort to remove barriers that prevent the Single Market from delivering its potential.

The EU Parliament has proposed some positive changes to the pharma package, the EU’s largest reform of pharmaceutical legislation in twenty years, but these are unlikely to go far enough to significantly improve people’s access to medicines.

The European Parliament has voted to substantially strengthen the rules relating to cross-border GDPR enforcement procedures, whose inefficiency have plagued the landmark data protection law. Consumer groups have repeatedly flagged the slowness and complex procedures for cross-border enforcement of the GDPR as a major barrier to effective protection of consumers’ personal data.