The Council took note of presentations by the Commission on the following subjects:
Consumer Programme for the period 2014-2020: last November the Commission submitted a proposal for a draft regulation on a consumer programme for 2014-2020. The new consumer programme, with a proposed budget of EUR 175 million, will replace the 2007-2013 programme in the field of consumer policy.
The Commission presented a summary of the sixth edition of the scoreboard "Making markets work for consumers", which was published last October.
Started in 2008, the Consumer Market Scoreboard is the Commission’s main tool for identifying potentially underperforming sectors in the single market.
The majority of the scoreboard data is supplied by a survey of 51 consumer markets, accounting for more than 60% of the household budget (housing, education and most medical products and services are not covered).