Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-06-09-Speech-4-187-187"
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"MEPs have received more than 400 petitions concerning widespread misleading business practices by business directory companies affecting thousands of mostly small businesses. The misleading business practices in question typically consist in luring businesses, as well as professionals and non-profit entities, into being listed in a business directory free of charge only for the signatories to later discover that they have signed a contract with a fee. Indeed, the business directory companies are often established in a different Member State, making it difficult for the victims to seek protection or redress from national authorities.
I support this resolution. The directive on misleading and comparative advertising (2006/114/EC), which applies to business-to-business transactions, is insufficient in providing an effective remedy and is also inadequately enforced by Member States. The resolution urges the Commission to verify Member States’ correct transposition, implementation and national enforcement of the directive and to speed up its activities with regard to revising and improving the directive and other relevant legislation so as to put an end to the misleading practices of business directory companies as soon as possible, notably by specifically blacklisting misleading practices by business directories."@en1
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