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Sorry but lack of resources and community participation meant we could not respond to this consultation.

This consultation is open until 31 July 2008.

• Link to consultation homepage, where you can read more on its remit and download the consultation document.
• Link to our consult tool, where you can leave comments on the consultation's questions (will go up this week!)

[edit] Remit of the Consumer Protection Review

"A government review of the consumer protection regime is looking at where legislation can be simplified, while ensuring the public gets a fair deal and high-quality products. As markets and technologies continue to develop at pace, our legislative system has to keep up and provide consumers with adequate protection.

Consumer protection regulations have developed over several decades and there are now more than 100 different pieces of legislation, which are sometimes inconsistent and inflexible. These have also caused a huge administrative burden for businesses.

The Government is committed to making our consumer protection regime the world’s best. Its aim is to ensure people get:

• a fair deal
• value for money
• safe and high-quality products
• greater choice.

This is good for consumers and good for British business. To help achieve this, the Government has launched a review of the UK’s consumer protection regime. This will:

• look at where existing legislation can be simplified and made more flexible, while retaining the necessary level of protection
• consider how to simplify and rationalize the enforcement of legislation, allowing regulators to focus on higher-risk sectors or business
• investigate how consumers can be kept better informed by communicating and explaining legislation more effectively.

[edit] ORG's interest

Our supporters are interested in this consultation as a forum to push the Gower's Review recommendation on truthful labelling on the limitations of DRM- encumbered media, as well as the general anti-consumer nature of DRM in general. We may also try to frame as a deceptive the practice of iTunes and others to lease rather than actually sell sound files, in that customers are given a limited right to use music but think they're buying the track.