BEUC - The Consumers' Voice in Europe BEUC , the European Consumers' Organisation, is the Brussels based federation of independent national consumer organisations from all the Member States of the EU and from other European countries. Our job is to try to influence, in the consumer interest, the development of EU policy and to promote and defend the interests of all European consumers. European Consumers Pay More. In the European Parliament the Legal Affairs Committee is holding a public hearing on the issue on 10th April. BEUC, the European Consumers Organisation, is writing to all members of the Committee asking them to support a change in the current law.
European Consumers Pay More.
BEUC director Jim Murray, denounced the forty pharmaceutical companies taking legal proceedings against President Nelson Mandela and the South African government to enforce their patent rights and accused them of denying access to medicines to poor people infected with AIDS in the third world. BEUC welcomes the results of today's vote in European Parliament on the draft directive on food supplements such as vitamins and minerals. Consumers will have fewer rights online than offline. This is the disappointing outcome of today's vote in the European Parliament on the directive on Copyright in the Information Society. Previously the member states agreed a common position with a restricted conditional right to make copies for personal use.