Ten years after the Interchange Fee Regulation, time to tackle new wholesale price increases

On 8 June 2015, the EU’s Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) entered into force, effectively capping a key part of the wholesale price of payments, to the benefit of EU businesses and consumers. Te...

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Independent Retail Europe regrets the reduced level of ambition in the European Commission’s newly released Single Market Strategy

Independent Retail Europe regrets the reduced level of ambition in the European Commission’s newly released Single Market Strategy. While the strategy acknowledges several longstanding issues th...

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Independent Retail Europe and EuroCommerce call on the Commission to propose a legislative solution to eliminate territorial supply constraints and announce this in the forthcoming Single Market Strategy

Independent Retail Europe and EuroCommerce sent a letter to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, calling on the Commission to propose a legislative solution to eliminate territorial...

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Independent Retail Europe, Euro Coop, and HOTREC request necessary changes to the Green Claims Directive to reduce bureaucratic burden and support – not discourage – companies’ investments in sustainability

Euro Coop, HOTREC and Independent Retail Europe sent a joint letter to Jessika Roswall, Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, Valdis Dombrovskis, Commissio...

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Joint call on IMCO and AGRI committees to preserve the Single Market - Regulation on cross-border enforcement of the UTP Directive

Today, Independent Retail Europe and Euro Coop sent a joint letter to the Chairs and Vice-Chairs of the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee and of the Internal Market Committee calling o...

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