We hope you enjoy your visit and gain an insight into the work your EPP-ED MEP are doing to ensure the free movement of goods, services, persons and capital as well as to promote a higher level of consumer protection.
An effective, open Single Market must form the core of Europe's competitiveness, and our response to the pressures of globalisation.
Our Committee's goals are to promote policies that will make the Single Market deliver enhanced economic growth and more consumer choice, while encouraging innovation and enterprise.
The vision of informed and empowered consumers, exercising their market power and confident of their rights will be at the heart of our activities.

PRESS RELEASES

24/09/2008	Phone and internet consumers to get greater choice and more clarity. Malcolm Harbour MEP
24/09/2008	EU-Telekompaket: EP will Balance zwischen Stärkung der Verbraucherrechte und dem Schutz des Urheberrechts/ EU Telecom Package: EP seeks balance between strong consumer rights and copyright protection. Andreas Schwab MEP
23/09/2008	Internal Market Scoreboard: Boosting the internal market by better implementation of European legislation. Charlotte Cederschiöld MEP
10/09/2008	EU telecoms package must not be derailed by scaremongering. Malcolm Harbour MEP
05/09/2008	The promotion of toy safety by the European Union. Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou MEP

HEARING ON SAFETY OF TOYS

Revision of the Toys Directive The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection of the European Parliament held a hearing on Monday 23rd June on toy safety.

EPP-ED Vice-Chairwoman Marianne Thyssen MEP (Belgium) is rapporteur of Parliament's report on the toys directive. Industry representatives, regulators, and consumer interest groups participated in the hearing, which examined the revision from both the industry and consumer point of view, as well as enforcement issues. Mrs Thyssen has said that consumer protection tops the political agenda of the EPP-ED Group, and that recent problems on the toy market show that despite existing consumer protection legislation, the need still exists to revise the Toys Directive.

Programme

Video: Dangerous Toys

EPP-ED HEARING

European Defence Equipment Market Several EPP-ED MEPs organised an EPP-ED Group Hearing on the Commission's Defence Package - 'Building a European Defence Equipment Market' in the European Parliament on Thursday 12 June...

Video: Building a European Defence

POLICY

	Policy priorities
	Implementation of major internal market legislation
	Policy perspectives
	General Remarks