Press Release: Financial services: Commission hosts first meeting of Financial Services Consumer Group

The EU's newly created Financial Services Consumer Group met for the first time on 20 June 2006. This aim of this Group was to bring together representatives from consumer organisations from EU Member States as well as consumer organisations active at EU level. The group, which was co-chaired by DG Internal Market and Services and DG Health and Consumer Protection of the European Commission, intended to stimulate the exchange of information between national and European consumer representatives and the European Commission, to provide information to consumers in all Member States, to build financial services expertise in the consumer movement and to obtain additional consumer-focused input on financial services policy issues.