Consumer Protection: The Senate proposes to rewrite the first article of a draft bill in line with recommendations made by the Competition Authority

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In view of the discussion in open session on December 20 and 21 2011, of the bill strengthening rights, protection and information of consumers, the Senate has just put online report No. 175 of Mr. Alain Fauconnier, made on behalf of the Committee on the Economy, Finance and Industry, on the and land use planning in the Senate. Firstly, with regard to article 1 of the bill, which seeks to delete barriers to rebranding that exist in the distribution, by regulating and formalizing relations between the affiliation between an independent merchant and the head of the distribution, the author of the report is of the opinion that Article 1 has, after its passage