Translation of "indice des prix des logiciels commerciaux " (French → English) :

[15] Examples of directives which contain minimum harmonisation clauses within the field approximated by Directive 2005/29/EC are: Directive 98/6/EC on the indication of the prices of products offered to consumers, Directive 97/7/EC on distance contracts, Directive 85/577/EEC on contracts negotiated away from business practices, Directive 94/47/EC on the purchase of the right to use immovable properties on a timeshare basis and Directive 90/314/EEC on package travel.

[15] Examples of directives which contain minimum harmonisation clauses within the field approximated by Directive 2005/29/EC are: Directive 98/6/EC on the indication of the prices of products offered to consumers, Directive 97/7/EC on distance contracts, Directive 85/577/EEC on contracts negotiated away from business practices, Directive 94/47/EC on the purchase of the right to use immovable properties on a timeshare basis and Directive 90/314/EEC on package travel.

I should like to stress, for the benefit of my honourable friends worried about competitiveness, that a great many of our international commercial competitors have applied the price security index even at the level of loss of income due to changes in commercial pricing policy, a policy covered by WTO agreements.

Concerning non-safety related measures, a Consumer Protection Act, adopted in 2003, aims at transposing EU directives on misleading and comparative advertising, on contracts negotiated away from business premises, on consumer credit, on unfair terms in consumer contracts, on timesharing, on distance contracts and on the indication of the prices of products.

This activity would, as far as comparison is concerned, be permitted when the following conditions were met: - it is not misleading according to Directive 84/450/EEC; - it compares goods or services meeting the same needs or intended for the same purpose; - it objectively compares one or more material, relevant, verifiable and representative features of those goods and services, which may include price; - it does not create confusion in the market place between the advertiser and a competitor or between the advertiser's trade marks, trade names, other distinguishing marks, goods or services and those of a competit ...[+++]or; - it does not discredit or denigrate the trade marks, trade names, other distinguishing marks, goods, services or activities of a competitor; - for products with designation of origin, it relates in each case to products with the same designation (account should be taken here of the provisions resulting from Regulation No 2081/92 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs, in particular Article 13 thereof, as well as the other Community provisions adopted in this connection in the agricultural sphere); - it does not take unfair advantage of the reputation of a trade mark, trade name or other distinguishing marks of a competitor or of the designation of origin of competing products.

An example is the 1979 Directive on consumer protection as regards food price labelling, which was based on Article 235 (now Article 308) of the EC Treaty, and the Directives on misleading advertising (1984) and the protection of consumers in the case of contracts negotiated away from business premises (1985), based on Article 100 (now Article 94) of that Treaty.