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new to the LEFT: Consumer Guidelines to be adopted today.

Anyone who buys goods in the supermarket, ordered on the Internet or the health and care services takes a, is considered powerful. For empowered consumers to adjust their consumption to market. Anyone who buys, orders or claims, but applies as well to cope. Because given complexity of the markets - either through new technologies, globalized product cycles and privatization - to consume today is not that simple. Even so called LEFT an active consumer policy that is socially just, ecologically sustainable, and actively represents the rights of consumers to the fore again. "We have nothing against responsible consumer, but the policy must not pass the responsibility on them," says Caren Lay, consumer spokesperson for the group.

A focus of the new guidelines is to strengthen consumer rights through consumer organizations and regulators are well-equipped public institutions. About collective make assertive consumer rights, consumer groups, according to the LEFT to get extensive rights to information and the collective rights of action to be extended. It was necessary, a revision of the Consumer Information Act, says the 14-page paper. Here is now primarily regulated food labeling. "The scope of the law must apply to all products, products and services are expanded," the motto. "Understandable marking" instead of consumer deception. Public authorities should also publish their findings.

same time, the Left is the consumer to remunicipalisation already privatized Areas of public interest. These include housing, energy and health care. "The very health should not" be made in the light of market logic, Lay.

A critical look at the markets and not to the individual consumer, the party also raises the question of "democratization of the economy" through market regulation, for "self-informed and educated consumers are the structural superiority of large companies often do not grow." Therefore, nationwide independent consumer councils were necessary, as it in the passenger area and by energy advisory boards already are, and the strengthening of self-organization for example through cooperatives.

In fact, the Left is in its guidelines against an overloaded consumer society and calls instead for an improvement in the quality of products and services - both ecologically and in matters of production conditions. "While the German economy is as environmentally friendly and energy saving, she suggests that part of production that is elsewhere, energy-and resource-eating," says the paper. Internationally developed standards to prevent exploitative employment conditions.

Connect will not last the LEFT also the issues of social and consumer policy, but about to make for higher incomes. "Particularly older and poorer people get advice from consumer protection organizations, for they are more affected by advertising stitches and they realize the impact actually painful in the wallet," notes Ley. Specifically, this could provide a remedy nationwide, free consultation and outreach.