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"Mr President, up until now the internal market of the European Union has been developed on the terms of mainly large companies. Now it is time to turn our attention to small and mediumsized enterprises and, above all, consumers, to ensure that their interests in the internal market are more vigorously protected. This Commission proposal to reform consumer protection has met with a fairly controversial reception. In Finland, for example, the Consumers’ Association collected signatures on a petition, stating that the proposal, if it had gone ahead, would have harmed consumer protection in Finland irreparably.
This compromise we have now voted on, which will go for further discussion, is very obscure. A large number of the original proposals have been cut out, with the result that it is in no way ambitious. The biggest problem, however, is that it is actually hard to understand. I would like to make it a condition that the directive on consumer rights should be one that consumers also understand, thus offering them protection."@en1
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