0 the protection of buyers of goods and services against low quality or dangerous products and advertisements that deceive people
1 laws and rules intended to protect customers from dishonest practices by sellers:
The aim of future legislation will be to ensure consumer protection and food safety while preserving innovation and competitiveness in the food processing industry.
The clarification of the detailed rules for financing consumer protection organisations was essential.
Access to information is an essential guarantee of consumer protection.
What consumer protection would there be?
Company law and environmental directives, tax provisions, the regulation of professions, the directives on credit and insurance and laws on consumer protection are generally complex and require specialized knowledge.
Consumer protection is still limited for sales via internet, and internet can be used to transmit indecent material.
The courts, meanwhile, played at best a minor role in consumer protection.
Households are unable to do the same without an effective structure of consumer protection, also lacking typically in developing countries.
