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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8669

19 March 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ep/consumers
Parliament's legal committee calls for setting up of minimum harmonised rules for consumer credit

Brussels, 18/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - In Tuesday's decision on the draft directive on consumer credit, the legal and internal market committees at Parliament opted for minimum harmonised rules applicable to credit contracts in the European Union. Rapporteur, Joachim Wuermeling (CSU MEP) was pleased to obtain a comfortable majority (24 votes for, 4 against) and the parliamentary committee has therefore turned its back on the principle of total harmonisation proposed by the European...

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