Euroconsumers: Consumer Organization in Europe, previously known as Conseur - European Consumers, is a private independent multinational corporation, based in Luxembourg,[1] that works in Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Luxembourg and Brazil, representing 1.5 million households.[2]
The main objectives of Euroconsumers are to promote and defend consumer interests, such as freedom of choice, access to information, education and justice, and right to health, safety and a healthy environment.
Euroconsumers is an umbrella for a number of national consumer organizations, co-ordinating their actions at a European level with regard to customers of airlines,[3] nutritional information on food packaging,[4] technology,[5][6] and social media.[7][8] Their class action lawsuit against Facebook led to a groundbreaking decision in an Italian regional court on the value of private data.[9]
Member organizations include:
- Test Achats (Belgium), called "Test Aankoop" or "Test Achats"
- OCU (Spain), called "Organizacion de Consumidores y Usuarios"
- Deco Proteste (Portugal)
- Altroconsumo (Italy)
- Proteste (Brazil)
References
edit- ^ "Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés - Luxembourg". Archived from the original on 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
- ^ "Euroconsumers to Enhance Customer Experience With Vonage". www.businesswire.com. 2020-01-09. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
- ^ "Euroconsumers et Test Achats demandent des mesures européennes pour le secteur des voyages". Le Soir (in French). Belga. 27 April 2020.
- ^ Bernard Padoan (28 April 2020). "Appel pour rendre le Nutri-Score obligatoire à l'échelle européenne". Le Soir (in French).
- ^ "Des organisations de consommateurs européennes s'unissent contre Apple". RTBF (in French). 3 July 2020.
- ^ "Apple doit rembourser 60 € à chaque possesseur d'un iPhone ralenti". La Libre Belgique (in French). Belga. 3 July 2020.
- ^ "Euroconsumers launch a collective action against Facebook". The European Consumer Organisation. 5 June 2018.
- ^ "Not your Puppets: An update on the Euroconsumers class action against Facebook". Consumers International.
- ^ Andrea Tuninetti Ferrari; Iolanda D'Anselmo (28 January 2020). "Italian court confirms that personal data has economic value in Facebook case". Lexology. Law Business Research.