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"en.20120522.15.2-278-000"2
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"I am seriously concerned that the proposed method of protecting vulnerable consumers does not amount to a functional model of consumer protection, particularly as it is based on the preferential protection of a specified number of consumers. Consumer protection should always be based on application of the principle of equal treatment in relation to all groups of consumers. In addition, the fact that the group of vulnerable consumers comprises a dynamically changing set of addressees which is very hard to define undermines the entire proposed philosophy of greater protection for vulnerable consumers. This all underlines the impossibility of defining such a group in legislative terms. It is not changed in any way by the fact that the term ‘vulnerable consumer’ has already been used in the directive concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market. Here, however, it is based on unfair competition practices, in relation to which an economic interest can be unambiguously quantified, both in the form of profit and in the form of damages. If this interest is broadened to include health, safety or morality, it will be difficult to define in legislative terms and, consequently, impossible to put into practice."@en1
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