Injunctions for the protection of consumers' interests. Codification

The Commission has presented an amended proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on injunctions for the protection of consumers' interests (codified version).

It should be recalled that on 12 May 2003, the Commission presented a proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council codifying Directive 98/27/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 1998 on injunctions for the protection of consumers' interests. In its opinion of 11 June 2003, the Consultative Working Party of the legal services set up under the Interinstitutional Agreement of 20 December 1994 on an accelerated working method for official codification of legislative texts has stated that the above proposal does indeed confine itself to straightforward  codification, without any substantive changes to the acts covered by it.

In view of the new amendments which have been adopted in the meantime to the initial proposal, the Commission has decided to present – in accordance with Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty – an amended proposal for codification of the Directive in question. This amended proposal also takes account of the purely formal or editorial changes proposed by the Consultative Working Party of Legal Services, where these are considered justified. The proposed amendments concern changes to parts A and B of Annex II.