Negotiators from the European Parliament and the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council reached an interim inter-institutional agreement on Thursday 7 February on the introduction of new EU product market surveillance rules (see EUROPE 12184).
With this agreement, "the EU will benefit from a more effective, modern and common control system, with a greater attention to goods sold online", Nicola Danti (S&D, Italy) cheered in a statement. He pointed out that "for most products in circulation...