Independent Retail Europe urges EU co-legislators to delay any final agreement on green claims until meaningful simplification is truly achieved

While supporting the proposal’s objective of ensuring reliable claims, Independent Retail Europe, Euro Coop, HOTREC, and RURALTOUR are deeply concerned that trilogue negotiations have so far fai...

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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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