AFTER MARKET WANTS BLOCK EXEMPTION TO SURVIVE CURRENT EU REVIEW
August 1st, 2008
BY ANDREW CAVE
ONE might suppose that scrapping the European Union's (EU) restrictive block exemption legislation that helps big car manufacturers and hinders thousands of independent suppliers and garages wanting to repair their automobiles would be welcomed in the after-sales market.
However, nothing is ever that simple in the complex world of business relationships within the auto sector. There are a lot of interests at play, and Brussels move towards loosening, or even scrapping the exemption is generating mainly negative responses from key players amongst ...
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