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Consumer protection in the United Kingdom is effected through a multiplicity of Acts of Parliament, statutory instruments, government agencies and departments and citizens' lobby groups and aims to ensure the market economy produces fairness and quality in goods and services people buy. The main areas of regulating consumer affairs include, *fairer terms in contracts for goods and services, by declaring surprising and onerous terms as unfair *product safety regulation, to ensure people cannot purchase goods that are potentially harmful *financial regulation, to ensure access to credit is cheaper and people fully understand the obligations they have when taking loans *stronger competition in the private sector, through breaking up cartels, dismantling monopolies and unwinding some mergers Because the United Kingdom, through its membership of the European Union is part of the internal market, it works with other European countries and EU institutions to produce and enforce consumer protection laws transnationally. ==History== *English tort law *English contract law *Restraint of trade *Bank of England est 1694 *Trading Standards Institute, formerly the Incorporated Society of Inspectors of Weights and Measures est 1881 *European Communities Act 1972 *Department of Trade and Industry *Department of Prices and Consumer Protection 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Consumer protection in the United Kingdom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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