Brussels, 10/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Consumers' Organisation, Beuc, welcomed the amendment of the "General Product safety" Directive, recently proposed by the European Commission (see EUROPE of 1 April, p.14). "The European Commission and national authorities will now have the practical means to ban dangerous products and force their removal from the shelves", it states in a press release, considering that this was a major breakthrough for consumers.
Indeed, according to the...