Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-06-23-Speech-4-533-000"
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"en.20110623.37.4-533-000"2
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"I voted for the adoption of the Consumer Rights Directive, because I believe it will ultimately strengthen the rights of European consumers. My group in particular has managed to carry through several key points which retain the high level of consumer protection in countries where protection would be reduced through the introduction of common rules. It was important for the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, as well as for me personally, that the directive should apply to digital products in the same way as it does, in part, to passenger transport. Another important point is that the directive includes a long list of requirements pertaining to the information which must be provided by traders to consumers in the pre-contractual stage in the case of off-premises and distance contracts. Another important point is that consumers must be informed of the full price and the main characteristics of a product immediately before ordering it on the Internet, and they alone must explicitly confirm that they want to pay that price. In addition to this, the right to withdraw from a contract will be fully harmonised in all Member States, providing a fourteen-day period to do so. The new directive also does away with the exemption for distance or off-premises contracts, which have been widely abused in the Czech Republic by street traders or at promotional events for old people, for example, depriving consumers of their rights, such as the right to withdraw from a contract."@en1
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