Press releases

Today, negotiators from the European Parliament and Member State governments concluded a deal to open up broadcasters’ TV programmes, series and news content for online viewers living in another EU country. The deal is limited to ‘news and current affairs’ programmes as well as fully financed own productions from the broadcaster. This constitutes a weakening of the original European Commission proposal which did not limit the type of productions affected by this law.

Today, the European Parliament voted in plenary to make risk assessment in the food chain more transparent.

Today several consumer groups are taking action against the use of ‘no-show’ clauses in airline tickets. This clause prevents passengers from using the return leg of an airline ticket, or the remainder of an itinerary, if they didn’t use the first leg, for whatever reason.

Members of the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) in the EU Parliament today supported the idea that consumers everywhere in the EU should be able to go to court as a group if they have been harmed by the same trader.