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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10084

24 February 2010
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/consumers
Maximum harmonisation is not best solution for directive on consumers' contractual rights

Brussels, 23/02/2010 (Agence Europe) - MEP Evelyne Gebhardt (S&D, Germany) recommends a dual approach to harmonisation for the draft European directive of October 2008 on consumers' rights: maximum harmonisation in areas where it is possible and minimum harmonisation the rest of the time. That is what she said on Monday 22 February at a press lunch, prior to a new hearing with national parliaments on this proposal for a directive put for examination for the third time (see EUROPE 9988).

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