Michael McGrath

Will there be new action against Xi'an over that?

Well there are already actions underway and the French authorities have

launched their own investigation and we are remaining in contact with them but already at an EU level there is an action underway in the context of the DSA relating to illegal products on the platform and so that has to take its course and it will do but we have powerful instruments we stand ready to use them we have to allow due process and allow counterparties the right to respond and

to address any claims that we're making.

But we will bring this to a conclusion and we will ensure that such products have no place in the European market and will not be countenanced.

The Digital Services Act is a very powerful tool and we are using it.

It is my view that the main body of consumer protection law that we have within the European Union

That's the Consumer Protection Regulation as such, that we do need to strengthen that.

We need to give the Commission a greater role in investigating and enforcing consumer protection laws more generally.

because the DSA only covers certain in-scope platforms, and then it only covers them to the extent of the reach of the consumer protection element within the DSA.

There's a wider body of consumer protection law, which currently falls to the national authorities to implement.

And there are different capacities, to be frank, around the European Union on that question.

And that's why I am proposing...

that the European Commission would take on a greater role and be given more teeth to take on these issues, not just against the very large platforms, but against any other e-commerce retailers that float the EU rules.

Well, the national authorities have different capabilities and they are resourced to a different extent.

And at the moment where there is a coordinated CPC action, Consumer Protection Cooperation action, we coordinate it centrally within the Commission.

But it is led by the individual national authorities and very often individually.

The outcome is that the harm is stopped rather than there being an actual penalty and a disincentive to repeating such behaviour in the future.

And I think we do need to have a stick where EU rules are being broken because consumers have to be protected.

And product safety is not just a bureaucratic obligation.