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<title>FSFE provides input to EC on collective redress</title>
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<h1>FSFE provides input to EC on collective redress</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">On Friday, Free Software Foundation
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Europe asked the European Commission to create a legal
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avenue for citizens seeking collective redress against
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companies. In its <a
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href="http://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20110429.CollectiveRedress.Response.FSFE.pdf">
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contribution</a> to a <a
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href="http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/redress_cons/collective_redress_en.htm#cr">public
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consultation</a> by the
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Commision, FSFE argues that consumers should be able to join
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forces in order to defend their rights against harmful business
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practices. </p>
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<p>"Collective redress" is a legal concept which allows
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citizens and businesses that are individually harmed by
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illegal behaviour of a given company to bundle their
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claims in a single procedure. Not only does this simplify
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the process and reduce costs. Since starting a lawsuit on
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a personal basis carries great financial risks, for most
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citizens collective redress is also the only realistic
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path to take legal action against bad business practices.
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<p>
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Being concerned with numerous complaints over pre-installed
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Microsoft Windows operating system, FSFE has provided the EC with
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its vision of the main principles for a collective redress
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procedure which would make it easier and more effective for
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consumers to act against monopolistic marketing practices.
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In March, FSFE <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110321-01.en.html">announced its support</a> for the class action sought by Italian consumers association ADUC against Microsoft's persistent failure to reimburse unwanted operating system licenses which consumers had acquired together with computers.
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<tag>front-page</tag>
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<tag>European Commission</tag>
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<tag>windows tax</tag>
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