Highlights - REFIT first results on Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive: 5 September - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

The European Commission presented the preliminary results concerning the REFIT exercise on consumer law, in particular in relation to the Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive and the question whether the scope of the proposal on online and other distance sales of goods could/should be extended to face-to-face sales of goods.

During the past months, the EC has gathered data from consumers and businesses through questionnaires inquiring about their expectations as regards guarantee periods and remedies available in case of lack of conformity.
Following an analysis of the data, the Commission was able to answer the question on the possible widening of the scope of the Sales of Goods Proposal to cover also face-to-face sales in the affirmative, leaving it however to the MEPs to table the necessary amendments to that effect.