CELEX: 51985PC0398(01)
Language: en
Date: 1985-07-19
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION IN RESPECT OF THE INDICATION OF PRICES FOR NON-FOOD PRODUCTS

14. 8. 85                             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No C 205/5
          Amendment to the proposal for a Council Directive on consumer protection in respect of the
                                      indication of prices for non-food products (')
                                                     COM(85) 398 final
          (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of
                                              the EEC Treaty on 29 July 1985)
                                                       (85/C 205/06)
                                                          Article 3
          Insert a new subparagraph:
                3.    The unit price may be shown by poster or labelling. The unit price must not be
                confused with the selling price which is more important. This ranking must be made plain
                in the way the information is presented.
                                                          Article 4
          Delete the words 'indicated at the place of sale'.
                                                           Article 5
          To read: Any written or printed advertisement at the place of sale or elsewhere and any
          catalogue aimed at the final consumer (...).
                                                          Article 10
          Insert a new paragraph:
          Until the expiry of the transitional period during which use of the imperial system of units of
          measurement is authorized by Community provisions relating to units of measurement, the
          competent national authorities in Ireland and the United Kingdom shall determine, for each
          product or each category of product, the units of mass or volume of the international system or
          the imperial system in which indication of the unit price is compulsory.
                                                          Article 11
          The first sentence to read:
          Member States may exempt products sold by certain small retail businesses and passed directly
          by the seller to the buyer from the obligation to indicate the unit price by labelling (...).
          0) O J N o C 8, 13. 1. 1984, p. 2.
          Amendment to the proposal for a Directive amending Directive 79/581/EEC on consumer
                                protection on the indication of the prices of foodstuffs (')
                                                     COM(85) 398 final
           (Submitted by the Commission to the Council in respect of Article 149, second paragraph of the
                                                         EEC Treaty)
                                                        (85/C 205/07)
                                                           Article 1
                                                    (new paragraph 1 (a))
           Insert a new paragraph 4 in Article 3:
                 4.    The unit price may be shown by poster or labelling. The unit price must not be
                 confused with the selling price which is more important. This ranking must be made plain
                 in the way the information is presented.
           (») OJ No C 53, 24. 2. 1984, p. 7.