An estimated 1.4 million Spaniards are facing potential foreclosure proceedings, according to Spain's consumer protection association, known as the Adicae.
"German carmakers totally underestimated the potential of the all-electric vehicle and thought it was just a fad that would pass," said Juergen Resch, the head of the nonprofit Deutsche Umwelthilfe environment and consumer protection association.
Scholars and consumer protection associations are worried whether consumers still know what they buy when they click to "buy now"— apparently few do, according to a recent empirical study.
While the study was conducted in the new world, consumer protection associations in the old world were already trying cases in German courts, asserting that consumers were misled when they were invited to "buy" digital goods under contract terms that precluded any resale of digital goods.
The Bundeskartellamt notes it is conducting its Facebook antitrust probe "in close contact with the competent data protection officers, consumer protection associations as well as the European Commission and the competition authorities of the other EU Member States".
The respondents generally consulting the internet on information on chemical products used mainly the manufacturers' sites (31%) with consumer protection associations and Google as second most mentioned source (both 21%) [18].
"Consumer protection associations need to be more pro-active...taking the lead of a centralized office for complaints and should carry out post-market entry follow up".
With the help of Vincenzo Dona, a leader of a consumer-protection association, Grillo pieced together the complex network of holding companies involved in the fraud, and uncovered the mechanism by which the telephone calls were made to appear to the dialer to be international while being routed to a location in Italy.
Italy's antitrust authority has fined the travel planning website TripAdvisor €500,000 (£392,000/US$600,000) following complaints of improper business practices lodged by a national hoteliers' association and a consumer protection agency.
Nessa Feddis, the trade association's senior vice president of consumer protection and payments, said banks face costs every time they deal with a bounced check.
Apple is now being sued by the Belgian consumer association Test-Achats (french/dutch website) for not applying the EU consumer protection laws by only giving 1 year warranty on its products.
