Press releases

The EU Commission has published today its e-commerce Communication to tackle the many problems consumers face when shopping online. BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation, welcomes the plan and calls for swift action to enforce rigorously existing laws around chemicals, online platforms and product safety and to wrap up important legislation.

Tests carried out over the last fifteen months by consumer groups from the BEUC network have exposed the shoddy safety of certain products on sale on Temu.

The EU Commission is publishing today its economic vision for the next five years - dubbed the ‘Competitiveness Compass’ - to help the European Union regain its competitiveness worldwide. BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation, calls on the EU to ensure that European industry delivers safe, sustainable and affordable products to consumers, which will allow the European economy to fill the growth gap with powers like the United States and China.

The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) represented the interests of consumers at a hearing today at the Court of Justice of the European Union to defend the 2022 General Court ruling (known as the Google Android case) which found that Google had broken European competition law.