02/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - For technical reasons the European Commission has postponed the adoption of its new legislative proposal on consumer loans in the Union. The draft directive, was expected to be adopted last Wednesday by written procedure (see EUROPE 31 July p 6) but due to translation problems in the German version, it was cancelled, explained the spokesman, Thorsten Münch, for the European Commissioner for consumer protection, David Byrne. He also explained that this future...