Brussels, 27/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 27 November, the European Commission launched a public consultation exercise on the usefulness of and arrangements for a possible European system of Consumer Collective Redress, which would facilitate redress in situations where large numbers of consumers have been harmed by a single trader's practice which is in breach of consumer law, at reasonable cost and particularly in cross-border disputes. Presenting the Green Paper to the press,...