Merchants call on EU institutions to cap commercial cards interchange: Uncapped fees lead to price discrimination and inflated consumer prices and are costing the EU economy at least € 4bn per year
The 2015 Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) capped interchange fees for consumer cards at 0,2% and 0,3% for debit and credit cards respectively. Commercial cards, sometimes called corporate, business or...
Read moreEuropean Commission rightly refers Hungary to EU Court over discriminatory retail tax regime
Independent Retail Europe supports the decision of the European Commission to refer Hungary to the European Court of Justice for not bringing its retail tax regime in line with EU law.
Read moreLabelling for consumers information: Digital first
The signatories urge European policymakers to embrace the sweeping change in consumer behaviour when seeking information, and craft forward-looking policy suited for the next twenty years and permit m...
Read moreEU must close legal loopholes on Territorial Supply Constraints to restore the single market and let competiti on play its role
As the European Parliament discusses on 15 April how to tackle territorial supply constraints, Independent Retail Europe calls on EU institutions to take the necessary measures to definitively ban the...
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