Dual quality food products: EC wants to tackle unfair practices

26 October 2017

On 26 September, the Commission issued a set of guidelines on the application of EU food and consumer laws to dual quality products, as announced by President Juncker in this year's State of the Union speech. The guidelines will help national authorities to determine whether a company is breaking EU laws when selling products of dual quality in different countries.
The guidance lists and explains the relevant requirements from EU food laws and EU consumer laws to which authorities need to refer when analysing a potential dual quality product issue: the Food Information Regulation and the Unfair Commercial Practices directive (Press Release European Commission, 26 September 2017).
Click here for the full press release.
Click here for the Commission Notice on the application of EU food and consumer protection law to issues of Dual Quality of products.
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