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"Mr President, in studying the three reports on consumer protection I asked myself whether this is not more about promoting consumerism. The internal market is already a corollary of the commandment "
". Evidently we now need to add the commandment "
". Mr President, you will understand that I am rather critical of this. We cannot deny that language, distance and cultural differences are the most significant barriers for consumers. This is completely ignored when we look for the cause in unfamiliarity with regulations in other EU countries. What is more, this assumes that the consumer is familiar with the regulations in his or her own Member State.
If we want to invest in consumer confidence we must above all invest in the reliability of products and services. I take the view that well-informed consumers can make their own choices. There needs to be a balance between protecting the consumer and the consumer’s own responsibility. I do not think we need a uniform legal framework. Let us first begin with minimum standards in the cases where there are real problems. It is artificial to generate legislation based on Article 153, because this has only been applied as a legal basis in practice on one occasion. I do not have any anxiety about discriminating against Treaty articles because we make less use of them than other Treaty articles."@en1
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