Press releases

Who decides what you eat: new report explores what's secretly influencing consumer diets. The way foods are presented and choices framed needs to change to make sustainable healthy diets easy.

A landmark piece of legislation - the EU’s Representative Actions Directive - allowing consumers to go to court as a group when they have suffered the same harm will officially start to apply across the EU as of Sunday 25 June. However, against their obligations, a significant number of Member States have still not implemented it – it’s time for these countries to pick up the pace.

Today, BEUC and 23 of its member organisations from 18 countries have filed a complaint to the European Commission and the network of consumer protection authorities (CPC) denouncing misleading climate-related claims by 17 European airlines. According to legal analysis commissioned by BEUC, such claims breach the EU rules tackling unfair commercial practices.

Consumer groups from 14 European countries are alerting their national authorities to launch urgent investigations into the risks of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, and to enforce existing legislation to protect consumers.