The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee published its report today on the draft Consumer Rights Bill, suggesting a string of amendments that it expected the Government to implement before the Bill goes to Parliament.
She said that a national approach among trading standards officers was vital for spotting scam trends across the country, and consumer awareness was equally as important for preventing these scams from succeeding, Earlier this month, the government published its draft Consumer Rights Bill which strives to clarify and update the regulations in place to protect consumers.
In a late-Friday release, the White House published a draft of its proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
Over the weekend, the Huffington Post received a draft outline of a proposal on consumer protection from Senator Dodd.
Meglena Kuneva, the European consumer affairs commissioner, will argue that basic consumer rights are being violated by companies that profile and target consumers, according to a draft of a speech seen by the International Herald Tribune.
The Fed has a long history of putting the credit card industry first and consumers far behind, and a draft of the rules released this month is disturbingly weak.
A COUPLE of weeks ago, I offered some suggestions for a draft of an On the Road Column Airline Consumer Manifesto.
"A gift voucher should be as good as a bankers draft, ie a consumer should know that they will either be able to redeem the gift voucher, or get their money back, and there is absolutely no reason why companies shouldn't keep monies raised from gift cards or vouchers in a separate account," he said.
In 2008, the FDA, which has regulatory authority over many consumer and medical products containing BPA, issued a draft assessment of BPA FDAA 2008).
Today, I have shared with my colleagues a draft order that would abandon this failed approach and return to the longstanding consensus that served consumers well for decades.
