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Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body,
the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things
happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius April 26, 121 AD- March 17, 180 AD
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Scottish
Power - Can Seriously Damage Your Wealth
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Unfair
Commercial Practices Directive
The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD) was adopted
on 11 May 2005. Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations
implementing the Directive in the UK came in to force on 26
May 2008
The Directive:
o harmonises unfair trading laws in all EU Member States;
o introduces a general prohibition on traders not to treat consumers
unfairly. This prohibition is intended to act as safety-net
consumer protection legislation.
In particular, the Directive obliges businesses not to mislead
consumers through acts or omissions; or subject them to aggressive
commercial practices such as high pressure selling techniques.
The Directive also provides additional protections for vulnerable
consumers who are often the target of unscrupulous traders.
The Directive's wide scope - it applies to all business sectors
- and flexible provisions means that it will plug gaps in existing
EU and UK consumer protection legislation; and set standards
against which new practices will automatically be judged.
Implementation of this Directive should help ensure the UK has
a consumer regime amongst the level of the best in the world.
The Directive's broad scope means that it overlaps with with
many existing laws. In addition, because the UCPD is a maximum
harmonisation Directive (ie setting out the maximum level of
restriction permissible in respect of unfair commercial practices
which harm consumers' economic interests) a supplementary objective
in transposing the Directive was to achieve, where possible,
some regulatory simplification. The Consumer Protection from
Unfair trading Regulations repeal provisions in a number of
overlapping laws, including most of the Trade Descriptions Act
1968 and Part 3 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (misleading
price indications).
Please have a look at our "Transposition" and "Green Paper"
pages for latest news and further details and history.
View the joint BERR/OFT guidance on the UK Regulations (May
2008) implementing the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive.
View the full text of The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading
Regulations 2008 on the Office of Public Sector Information
(OPSI) website.
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