Cross Border Consumers Helped
DTI Press Release
29 December 2006
The Consumer Protection Co-operation (CPC) regulation will help
tackle rogue traders who prey on consumers across European
borders, by establishing a network of national enforcement bodies
with powers to work together across the EU. The UK's co-ordinating
enforcement body will be the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
The new measures will tackle cross-border scams including:
* email scams and illegal prize draws;
* misleading advertising and pressure selling;
* phone scams based in other EU countries; and,
* timeshare and holiday club rogue traders.