To free up Internal Market goods trade, the European Parliament has finalised a law saying a country can only restrict imports from other EU states if it can show they infringe other EU rules.But Stephen Russel, the director of ANEC, defending consumer interests, voices doubts:
"Certainly, the package will be effective in reducing barriers to trade, and consumers can gain from the economic benefits. The problem comes to consumer protection, because we really want to make sure that unsafe goods do not get on the market, and we cannot do that without effective market surveillance."
As national product standards can act as barriers for some kinds of goods, such as scaffolding or bicycles, Brussels says only eight percent of companies in the EU sell products outside their home state.
The new law package is supposed to boost that.
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