European retail sector suffers from lack of coherence and transparency

Publié: 14 Octobre 2010
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The importance of shops with essential services, different labour laws and a lack of rules governing commercial trading is the state of Europe's retailing today according to a report. Shops came under the spotlight Wednesday (29 September) as a European Commission report was discussed by MEPs on the Internal Market Committee.



The environmental sustainable of the sector was also examined. The report found that the retail sector was high in energy consumption and that there was insufficient consideration given to the environmental impact of products. In addition there is no clear way of identifying the lifecycle of products between different counties.





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