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Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-03-27
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[01] Inner Cabinet discusses proposed draft law on consumer protection
[01] Inner Cabinet discusses proposed draft law on consumer protection
Prime minister Costas Karamanlis on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the
Inner Cabinet, which discussed the new bill on consumer protection that
the development ministry intends to table in parliament.
Development minister Dimitris Sioufas told reporters after the meeting
that the bill would create a new, modern and efficient framework for
protection of the consumer, supplementing and amending existing Law
2251/1994 which, he said "was a good law".
Sioufas noted that 12 years have elapsed since the passing of the
current law, stressed that adaptation was needed to the new operational
environment of the markets, iin order to more effectively protect the
citizens on the one hand and to contain stricter sanctions for
transgressors of the legislation who defraud the citizen/consumer on
the other hand.
He said it also gives consumers consumers, but also the consumer
organisations, which will acquire the ability of nationwide operation,
to also intervene in the operation of the markets aimed at their
smoother operation.
"The big strength is not found only in the laws and the implementation
of the laws, but it is also in the hands of the citizen himself, who
researches, searches, reports and charges incidents of violation of the
legislation, thus consolidating his own interests in the best possible
way, with the smoother operation of the markets," the minister said.
Development deputy minister Yannis Papathanassiou stressed that, for
the government, the consumer was the top priority, adding that "we
prove this with all our actions and interventions, culminating in this
draft law, which has met with the overwhelming acceptance of all the
consumer organisations and agencies".
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