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Market inspections to protect consumer interests are being intensified, the Consumer Protection Service announced on Friday, a day ahead of world consumer day. It is important that all businesses observe ...

Three proposed bills aimed at enhancing consumer and business protection against abusive clauses in bank contracts will take centre stage in February as the House plenum prepares to vote on ...

A total of 13 inflatables were taken off the market at a risk of causing drowning, the consumer service reported on Friday. The service published a detailed list of the beach ...

The consumer protection service on Tuesday announced the average prices of school supplies from its survey. The average price for a rucksack is €39.56, while for a wheeled backpack it stands ...

Capping the price of bottled water at specific locations, such as airports, ports and beaches is important to protect and support consumers, the commerce ministry said on Wednesday, following controversy ...

Food products are sold online which have been produced at uninspected facilities, warned the consumer protection service and health services of the health ministry on Wednesday. In a joint announcement, ...

The government on Friday welcomed the unanimous approval by the House of Representatives of the bill reducing fuel tax rate, aiming to relieve Cypriot consumers in a period of inflation. ...

The supermarkets association on Monday called the government’s plans for an e-basket of goods a “blunt and brute force” interference in the market, while the Consumer Protection Service was ...

Significant cost savings can be made by households by making the right shopping decisions, the Consumer Protection Service said on Wednesday. “In these challenging times, the market provides several options ...

The ‘e-basket’ law will most likely be introduced by autumn or the end of the year, the head of the consumers’ protection association Constantinos Karagiorgis said on Thursday, after businesses ...

A hotline has been launched by the Consumer Protection Service for people to report businesses failing to abide by reduced VAT on certain goods, an announcement from the trade ministry ...

No irregularities that would justify the intervention of the state have been found regarding the price of gas cylinders, director of the consumer protection service Constantinos Karageorgis said on Monday. ...

Members of the public have reported that shops are taking advantage of Black Friday to enforce some shady pricing practices, the consumer protection service of the ministry of commerce said ...

The price of basic goods, from cucumbers to sugar and yoghurt, has risen in the past month, according to data published by the consumer protection service on Friday. Its price ...

The Consumer Protection Service urged people to refrain from shopping from the website www.ioannouhomecy.com after receiving multiple complaints from scammed customers in recent days. Most complaints reported that ...

The Cyprus Consumers Association has written to the permanent secretary of the energy ministry to protest delays by the consumer protection service in investigating two complaints submitted in May 2020. They ...

The consumer protection service said on Tuesday that it has launched a campaign to check “lucky bags” on the market for dangerous materials and contents. Lucky bags contain a variety ...

A clampdown on false advertising and misleading sale prices are just some of the provisions of new consumer protection legislation, Commerce Minister Natasa Pilides said on Wednesday Presenting the new ...

The House of Representatives on Friday approved tougher consumer protection legislation with 43 votes in favour and three abstentions. The vote of the omnibus bill in the last session of parliament ...