KYPRIANOU QUESTIONNAIRE
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INCOMING European Commissioner for health and consumer affairs has committed himself to comprehensively overhauling the European Union's (EU) consumer protection legislation, to kick start Europe's sluggish cross-border shopping market. Answering a European Parliament questionnaire ahead of assuming office in November, Cyprus' Markos Kyprianou said the current laws were a "patchwork", creating a minimalist safety net of common European rights that failed to inspire confidence. Calling for more intense harmonisation of national laws, he said: ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.