2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply when the means are staple commercial products, except where the third party induces the person supplied to perform any of the acts prohibited by Article 6.

42. Proposes expanding European support for research in emerging sectors, such as green and ethical consumption, and for the pooling of everyday consumer goods (cars, bicycles, household appliances, etc.);

Being an average, the figure disguises the enormous prices hikes in everyday consumption items such as coffee, vegetables, bread, newspapers, a haircut, local taxes, including parking meters, and so on.

It is important for us to guarantee free movement for detergents, but I think it is still more important that the detergents we put on the market should damage neither the environment nor people’s health and that, as consumers, we should always know the nature of the everyday items we buy in the shops.

For example, not enough information was provided to the average consumer on the likely risk that prices of everyday items and services would soar.

10. Notes that, in all developed countries, households are spending less on ordinary consumer goods and manufactured goods - even cheaper and better quality goods - and more on health, communication and leisure, and notes also the considerable importance of the services sector in Europe's GDP and in terms of employment; considers, therefore, that the slowdown in productivity in this sector is a major factor responsible for sluggish growth in Europe; urges therefore that, in this sector, investment and innovation in information and communications technologies, which play a key role in boosting productivity, should be promoted; recommen ...[+++]ds opening up this sector to a greater extent to private operators and encouraging the spirit of enterprise in it;