Directive 98/27/EC of 19/5/98 creates a legal instrument, unprecedented at Union level, allowing for better putting into practice various directives which have consumer protection as their object. Apart from generalising the instrument of injunction orders in order to combat, in the collective interest, infractions of consumers protection rules, it equally establishes locus standi, for entities qualified to that end, to act before all competent instances (administrative authorities and/or courts) of all Member States.
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