Meeting of the Consumers and Environment Category

First, the progress report on planned obsolescence was presented by EESC member Thierry Libaert and Pascal Durand, Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance. This was followed by a discussion on "Migrants and their rights as consumers" by Isabelle Buscke, Head of the Brussels Office of the Federation of German Consumer Organisations. Later, Group III members Lutz Ribbe and Michel Dubromel presented the category's position on opinion TEN/598 on "The new electricity market design and potential impacts on vulnerable consumers". In the afternoon, a presentation was made on Certification of household appliances and electrical equipment by Christoforos Spiliotopoulos and Alun Jones from ECOS (European Environmental Citizens' Organisation for Standardisation).

Finally, the INT section secretariat briefed the participants on the organization of the 2017 European Consumer Day.