Digital Fairness Act
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Leaked draft · no COM or procedure number

Unofficial leaked draft of the Commission proposal · supplied 9 November 2026

Text of an unofficial leaked draft, not an adopted Commission proposal. Original wording, numbering and placeholders are preserved.

Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on promoting fair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the offline and digital single market, and repealing Directive 2005/29/EC (Digital Fairness Act)

Leaked draft · unofficial text

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Article 31 Codes of conduct

This Regulation shall not exclude the control, which Member States may encourage, of commercial fairness by code owners or recourse to code owners by the persons or organisations referred to in Article 30 if proceedings before code owners are in addition to the court or administrative proceedings referred to in that Article.

Recourse to code owners shall not be deemed the equivalent of foregoing any means of judicial or administrative recourse as provided for in Article 30.

Member States shall, where appropriate, encourage traders and code owners to inform consumers of their codes of conduct.