The Scottish government was consulting – till 11th September – on a Bill to establish Consumer Scotland as a body that will identify consumer harm as a starting point only. Its primary goal will be to develop and advocate for practical solutions. To do this, it will have four key functions: to provide strategic oversight of …
Interim Digital Workshop report 18th June 2019 Click Here
NCF Response to Online Harms Consultation June 2019 The National Consumer Federation welcomes the On-Line Harms consultation paper as an an important step forward in consumer protection. Click Here
Revision of the Regulators Code Press Release NCF Proposals to enhance the BEIS Regulators Code Click Here
NCF Consumer Manifesto The Political Parties and individual National Election Candidates Click Here
Did you know writes Arnold Pindar that the week commencing 19 November was “Electrical Fire Safety Week 2018 – “Safer over Sixty-Five”? Electrical Safety First (ESF) has developed guidance for older people and their relatives for electrical safety in the home. You can read about it on the BSI site. ESF reports that around 350,000 people are seriously …
Europe has adopted a European Standard* that will ensure that in future the labelling of electric vehicle power supply is compatible right across Europe. The deployment of the new labels on electrical vehicles and power supply stations for electrical vehicles should be complete by February 2021. NCF says “Cross border compatibility of labelling is …
In my last blog writes Arnold Pindar I talked about the need for the major decisions on Brexit to be taken before our negotiators can finalise the myriad of details that remain to be addressed and how we needed to maintain our strong connections with the institutions that do this work. Example At a broad level, the UK …
Months ago writes Arnold Pindar, I was told that the discussions on Brexit withdrawal would go right up to the wire and then agreement would be achieved between the EU 27 and the UK. Having negotiated in Europe since 1977 this did not feel right to me. As a Department of Trade and Industry (now BEIS) …
The National Consumer Federation (NCF) was delighted to be present on 6 September 2018 when the British Standards Institution (BSI) launched the international standard BS ISO 20488:2018 Online Consumer Reviews – principles and requirements for their collection, moderation and publication. Timely and Global This standard is timely and being international, recognises that online purchases are often cross …