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Bill: Consumer Protection Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Alliance 44
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2137
Description[?]:
| Regulations concerning consumer rights, and unfair market practices. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on advertising
Old value:: All advertising is permitted.
Current: Only advertising that meets certain set standards is permitted.
Proposed: Only advertising that meets certain set standards is permitted.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change
Scope of food ingredient labeling (if present).
Old value:: Only the major ingredients and those with specific labelling requirements must be listed.
Current: All ingredients and corresponding nutritional information must be listed.
Proposed: All ingredients must be listed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:05:16, November 05, 2005 CET | From |  Alliance 44 | To | Debating the Consumer Protection Act |
| Message | 1) Labour believes advertising should be regulated in a way that advertisements that are heavily misleading without giving factually false information could be banned and suited. Furthermore there should be no advertisments of products that are seriously hazardous to health. We believe neither the current laws in effect against the prohibition of giving false information, nor the ones considering the protection of children against obscenity cover the whole area of affairs concerning advertising that severly hurt consumer rights or the principle of equal competition. 2) consumers should always be fully informed about the products the are offered. It is a very obvious requiremment that producers should label all ingredients of the given product in order to ensure the freedom of choice for the consumer. 3) Private postal services should be heavily regulated and continously monitored in order to enforce already existing laws of privacy and personal data security and to ensure the safety of service. Please comment. |
| Date | 12:16:18, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Society of Sadists | To | Debating the Consumer Protection Act |
| Message | Article 3 is irrelevant. SoS supports 1 and 2 though. |
| Date | 12:24:36, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Jesters & Jugglers Party | To | Debating the Consumer Protection Act |
| Message | CS only supports article 2 |
| Date | 15:41:43, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Alliance 44 | To | Debating the Consumer Protection Act |
| Message | well, article 3 is really not key so i deleted it. however i strongly propose article 1. i find the argument saying it's already covered by other laws false. |
| Date | 15:47:00, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Alliance 44 | To | Debating the Consumer Protection Act |
| Message | regulations should be made following the pattern of the german and belgian regulations find them here: http://www.obs.coe.int/online_publication/reports/childadv.pdf.en |
| Date | 16:40:49, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Jesters & Jugglers Party | To | Debating the Consumer Protection Act |
| Message | i didn't know we had advertising laws :s |
| Date | 17:55:00, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Primus Inter Pares | To | Debating the Consumer Protection Act |
| Message | Indeed we have advertising laws, more on European Union level then on national governement level but we have rules on national level too. |
| Date | 18:03:10, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Alliance 44 | To | Debating the Consumer Protection Act |
| Message | i am very disappointed that the so called 'liberal' party do not support the protection of consumers freedom of choice ... |
| Date | 18:04:21, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Alliance 44 | To | Debating the Consumer Protection Act |
| Message | however Labour will propose article 2 again, this time independently |
| Date | 18:52:05, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Society of Sadists | To | Debating the Consumer Protection Act |
| Message | As this is a very good bill it is a shame to see it so heavily defeated. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 34 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 63 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 3 |
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