Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs

EU Legislative Interests

BEUC’s priorities are : Financial services • Trustworthy financial advice • Access to responsible credit offers • Sustainable Finance • Digitalisation in financial services • Access to cash • Payment services • Digital Euro Food • Informed food choices • Healthy & sustainable diets • Safe food • Animal welfare Consumer Rights & Enforcement • Horizontal consumer law • Consumer rights in the digital transition • Consumer rights in the green transition • EU product liability rules • Passenger rights • Alternative Dispute Resolution • Representative Actions and Collective redress • Public enforcement • Single market policies • EU Consumer Agenda Digital rights • Artificial Intelligence • Digital services and platform regulation • Data Protection and Privacy • Cybersecurity • Digital Transformation • Telecommunications • Internet of Things/Connected goods • Data Economy Sustainable consumption and production • Sustainable and durable products and services • Consumer information on sustainability • Sustainable supply chains Transport & Mobility • Sustainable mobility • CO2 standards for cars • Car Labelling • Alternative Fuels Infrastructure • Rail ticketing • Sustainable Aviation Fuels • ETS Energy • Consumer rights in gas • Consumer rights in district heating • Buildings‘ Renovation • Energy Poverty • Heating and cooling decarbonisation • Fair and affordable energy transition to net zero • Digitalisation of energy markets Housing • Affordability and availability of housing Health • Access to medicines • Medical devices Safety • General Product safety • Chemical safety • Sector specific product safety • Implementation of the Market Surveillance Regulation • Implementation and revision of Toy Safety Competition • EU enforcement of competition law • Digital Markets Act • Competition law and market regulation • Enhanced co-operation between consumer organisations and competition agencies International Affairs • Trade agreements between the EU and another partner and between the EU and multiple partners • Beyond trade: international cooperation EU regulation and governance • Simplification and competitiveness agenda website: www.beuc.eu

Communication Activities

We do communication activities on all our priorities mentioned above; see our website www.beuc.eu

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

BEUC maintains close contacts with our “big sister”, the international consumer organisation, Consumers International (CI). BEUC also plays an active role in the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), which is designed to promote contacts and exchanges with our colleagues in the US.

Organisation Members

Verein für Konsumenten-information – VKI/ Austrian Consumers’ Association (1) Kypriakos Sundesmos Katanaloton/Cyprus Consumers' Association – CCA (1) Асоциация Активни потребители/ Bulgarian National Association Active Users - BNAP(1) Fédération Romande des Consommateurs - FRC (CH) (1) Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband - vzbv/ Federation of German Consumer Organisations (1) Forbrugerrådet Taenk – /Danish Consumer Council – DK (1) Eesti Tarbijakaitse Liit – Estonian Consumers Union - ETL - (1) Confederacion de Consumidores y Usuarios – CECU (SP) (1) Consommation, Logement et Cadre de Vie – CLCV (FR) (1) Union Fédérale des Consommateurs - UFC - Que Choisir (FR) (1) Which? (UK) (1) Consumers' Protection Center – KEPKA (GR) (1) Association for the Quality of Life - E.K.PI.ZO (GR) (1) Fogyasztóvédelmi Egyesületek Országos Szövetsége - FEOSZ /National Federation of Associations for Consumer Protection in Hungary – (HU) (1), Tudatos Vásárlók Egyesülete – TVE/ Association of Conscious Consumers – ACC (HU) (1) Consumers' Association of Ireland - CAI(1) Neytendasamtökin – NS (IS) (1) Adiconsum Nazionale (IT) (1) Union Luxembourgeoise des Consommateurs – ULC (1) Latvijas Patērētāju interešu aizstāvības asociācija - LPIAA / Latvia Consumer Association (1) Organizacija na potrosuvacite na Makedonija - OPM /Consumers’ Organisation of Macedonia - OPM(1) Consumentenbond – CB (NL) (1) Forbrukerrådet – FR – Norvegian Consumer Council (NO)(1) Associação Portuguesa para a Defesa do Consumidor – DECO (PT) (1) Federacja Konsumentów - FK - Polish Consumer Federation FK(1) Stowarzyszenie Konsumentów Polskich - SKP - Association of Polish Consumers - SKP(1) Asociatia Pro Consumatori – Romanian Association for Consumers’ Protection – APC Romania(1) Sveriges Konsumenter - SK/ The Swedish Consumers’ Association(1) Zveza Potrošnikov Slovenije – ZPS/ Slovene Consumers’ Association- ZPS (1) Združenie slovenských spotrebiteľov - ZSS / Association of Slovak Consumers – ZSS (1) Spoločnosti ochrany spotrebiteľov – S.O.S./ SOS Poprad ( SK) (1) Arbeiterkammer – AK (AT) (1) Stiftung Warentest (DE) (1) dTEST - Czech association of consumers (1) Kuluttajaliitto – Konsumentförbundet ry – KK/ Consumers’ Union of Finland (1) Consumatori Italiani per l'Europa - CIE (1) Lietuvos vartotojų organizacijų aljansas - LVOA/ Alliance of Lithuanian Consumer Organisations – ALCO (1) Citizens Advice (UK) (1) Unija potrosaca Hrvatske - UPH/ Croatian Alliance of consumers – CAC (1) Consumer Council of Northern Ireland (1) Asociación de usuarios financieros – ASUFIN (ES) / Association of financial users (1) Fundacja Konsumentów – FC (PL)/ The Foundation for Polish Consumers (1)

Additional Information

* EU Single Market Programme: On 28 April 2021, The European Parliament and the Council adopted Regulation 2021/690 which recognises the need to empower consumers and their representative organisations at national level and at Union level. Article 10 recognises BEUC as a designated beneficiary of the Single Market Programme 2021-2027. * EU Grants: CLEAR-X (CINEA), CLEAR HP (CINEA), PROMPT (EASME), Ecodesigned4LIFE (CINEA) * EU Service Contracts: Consumer Law Ready (EISMEA), Ecolabel (CINEA) * Donations from foundations: 2,029,284 €