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The Consumer Protection White Paper could shake up many parts of trading standards
Posted 01 August 2019 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Analysis|Legal and Policy|National
ANALYSIS: Proposed reforms to consumer enforcement could reshape the relationship between national and local trading standards. As government considers new powers and structures, the profession weighs the opportunities alongside the risks.
The Government calls it ‘a whole system of consumer protection that can provide a robust response to both local and national threats’. The planned new enforcement system doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, but there is much to welcome in the Modernising Consumer Markets Green Paper, published in April 2018.
With the White Paper expected later this year, among other proposals, the prospec...
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