NEWS
Consumer Electronics Retail – Facilitating the green transition
Held on the 27th of April the event Consumer Electronics Retail – Facilitating the green transition, at Scotland House in Brussels. The workshop, arranged by EuroCommerce and the EuCER Council, dealt with digitalisation and sustainability in the Consumer...
EuCER Council feedback to the public consultation opened by the European Commission concerning the “right to repair and reuse”
The EuCER Council significantly appreciates the opportunity given by the European Commission to express its position. The Council emphasises the following aspects: • Preferred objectives to pursue should be to repair products always when possible and...
Hans Carpels, President of EuCER Council, appointed as Board Member at EuroCommerce
Brussels – 30 November 2021 The annual General Assembly of EuroCommerce, the European Confederation of the Retail and Wholesale Trade ( www.eurocommerce.eu ) appointed Hans Carpels as board member. “I’m very proud of this assignment. Not only personally but...
Consumer Electronics Products must be considered as essential goods.
Brussels, 29th October 2020 - EUCER COUNCIL POSITION FOLLOWING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW MEASURES DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC: CONSUMER ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS MUST BE CONSIDERED AS ESSENTIAL GOODS. The EuCER Council firmly states that, despite the dramatic...
EuCER Council Statement on store openings
Brussels, 30th March 2020 EUROPEAN RETAILERS OF CONSUMER ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS READY TO GRANT THE CONTINUITY OF SUPPLY TO CONSUMERS FOR ALL PRODUCT CATEGORIES. Not only the sale of new devices (more and more needed for smart working and e- learning) but also the...
Annual General Assembly of the EUROPEAN CONSUMER ELECTRONICS RETAIL COUNCIL
PRESIDENT HANS CARPELS ELECTED The first Annual General Meeting of the newly-born European Consumer Electronics Retail Council (EuCER), the non-profit association established from the will of Aires, E-Square, Euronics International, Expert International and Unieuro,...
Joint letter to the President of the European Commission
Brussels, 30 April 2020 Dear President von der Leyen, We are writing to you on behalf of manufacturers and retailers of electrical and electronic equipment and HVAR appliances in Europe who are subject to Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Regulations. Our...
Beyond the Web Tax
President Carpel's intervention at the debate focusing on asymmetries in modern trade With the arrival of multinational platforms of online commercial intermediation, new types of distribution and new organizational structures of trade have been introduced. In order...
Smart lockdown : European consumers must be granted the right to receive adequate choice and assistance when buying technical consumer goods
Not all the EU countries have established the same rules concerning the sale of home appliances and consumer electronics: such products have been considered as "primary goods and services" in some countries so that the sales in consumer electronics specialist stores...