BRUSSELS REPORTS EU UNSAFE AUTO CONSUMER ALERTS REMAIN HIGH
April 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON
THE EUROPEAN Commission has reported the number of notifications of potentially unsafe automobiles though the European Union (EU) consumer warning system remains high - being the third most common product category receiving withdrawals and sales bans in 2009. Auto faults were responsible for 9% of the notifications received by the EU's RAPEX consumer warning network last year.
In 2009, Sweden's Volvo and France's Renault and Citroen had the most cases of notifications on RAPEX, seven for each. Other brands afflicted by included ...
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