Members of the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee on Thursday 6 December supported the proposal to create a collective redress mechanism in the EU for European consumers deliberately harmed by unfair and illegal practices of the same company, to obtain compensation for the damage suffered. The ‘dieselgate’ scandal was on everyone's mind.
By adopting the amended report by French MEP Geoffroy Didier (EPP), MEPs strengthened the European Commission's proposal in the interests...