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Wiedner Hauptstraße 63 European Commission A-1045 Wien DG Sanco F101 06/52 Phone +43 1 50105DW Fax +43 1 Rue de la Loi 200 Internet: http://wko.at/rp 1049 Brussels E-Mail: Ulrike.Sehrschoen@wko.at Your reference Our reference Ext. Date Rp 62/01/SU 4271 27-11-2001 Ulrike Sehrschön Green Paper on European Union Consumer Protection; COM (2001) 531 final The Austrian Economic Chamber thanks for the possibility of giv- ing its comments on the Commission’s Green Paper and wants to submit its general remarks on the options set out in the docu- ment in time for the public hearing scheduled 7th December 2001. Detailed answers to the Green Paper’s questionnaire will follow th until 15 of January 2002. First of all we want to remark that the title „Green Paper on European Consumer Protection“ is quite misleading, as it con- cerns mainly fair commercial practices which in Austria would fall under the scope of the regulation against unfair competi- tion. We therefore can absolutely not share the Commission’s ap- proach which only sees fair commercial practices from the con- sumer’s point of view!! We certainly agree that fair commercial practices may also be in favour of the consumer (ex. misleading advertising), yet their objectives are also protection of competitors, fair market com- petition and protection of SMEs. In our opinion, a harmonisation of fair commercial practices on EU-Level only makes sense if B2B relations fall under its scope. If only B2C was meant, we cannot share the Commissio