The EU has unveiled a public consultation on the review of the Consumer Credit Agreements which runs until October 6, 2020 and had been put under the limelight by the Covic-19 pandemic. Though focused on consumer credit, the consultation aims to consult credit providers, credit intermediaries and credit registers, industry associations, businesses that produce and sell consumer products (goods and services), distributors and importers, repair sector, large online platforms and other online...
Febis Regulatory Committee has worked over the past weeks on a submission to the EU consultation on the EU Data Strategy unveiled by the Commission early 2020. In this submission paper, Febis insists on major points that are of great importance for credit and business information providers in terms of data access, data quality, fair competition, and technological adaptation. The paper thus outlines the need to foster access to data and the need not only to invest in data infrastructures , but...