Consumer organisations in Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland1 have announced that they will collect claims of car owners affected by the Volkswagen emissions scandal to demand compensation in court. Since the scandal broke, The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) and its member organisations, national consumer groups, have been working together to hold VW accountable for its fraudulent practices and to compensate consumers.
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National consumer authorities and the European Commission today sent a letter to Volkswagen to urge them to improve and speed up their recall measures.
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Today MEPs from the internal market and consumer protection committee cleared a first hurdle to reform the EU’s telecom market. It upgrades consumer protections of EU citizens when using digital communications tools.
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Today, a new method for measuring the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of cars enters into force. We welcome this EU initiative, called the Worldwide Harmonised Light vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP). It should produce a more realistic picture of the fuel economy of passenger cars and in turn help to better inform consumers.
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