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"I voted in favour of this resolution. The European Parliament has received more than 400 petitions concerning widespread misleading business practices by business directory companies that are having a significant financial impact on thousands of mostly small businesses in the European Union. The practices in question typically entail luring businesses, as well as professionals and non-profit entities, into being listed in a business directory free of charge, although signatories later discover that they have signed up to a contract with a fee. As the business directory companies are often established in a different EU Member State from that of their victims, it is difficult for the latter to seek protection and/or redress from national authorities. Although the European Commission cannot demand that an individual or a company implement the provisions of the directive on misleading and comparative advertising, as Guardian of the Treaties, it must ensure that the directive is properly implemented in the Member States. I welcome the call for the Commission to take action, verifying the transposition of the provisions of the directive into Member States’ national law and their proper implementation, and to take corrective action, where necessary, in order to stop misleading activities."@en1
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