Scandals such as the breast implant affair are now coming to an end, if the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Elżbieta Bieńkowska, is to be believed. On Tuesday 19 December, she announced the launch of two regulations: one of them for facilitating the marketing of a product in another member state and the other for beefing up controls by the national authorities.
The Commissioner pointed out that, "The market is based on confidence”. She presented the two initiatives...