The European Commission said today that traders breaking the law on a cross border basis face an EU wide crackdown, as a powerful new enforcement network will beofficially launched in Brussels tomorrow.
The network will target cross-border scams such as phoney lotteries and bogus holiday clubs. It will also clamp down on systematic abuses of EU consumer protection rules, from a company's refusal to give refunds on airline delays to pressure selling of timeshare holidays to sending misleading holiday brochures to consumers in other EU countries.
The Enforcement Cooperation Regulation sets up an EU wide network between enforcement bodies to tackle crooks who rip off victims in one country but operate in another.
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