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COMMISSION NOTICE – Guidance on the interpretation and application of Article 6a of Directive 98/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on consumer protection in the indication of the prices of products offered to consumers · European Union

(4) In 2018, under the coordination of the Commission, national consumer protection authorities carried out an annual EU-wide screening of e-commerce websites (‘sweep’) in the framework of the Consumer Protection Cooperation (‘CPC’) network. This Sweep dealt with price transparency including price reductions. For more than 31 % of the 431 screened e-commerce websites offering discounts, consumer authorities suspected that the special offers were not authentic or they found unclear the way the discounted price was calculated. Commission’s press release of 19 February 2019: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_19_1333.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.