Consumer Rights Act 2022

Misleading: marketing of goods as identical where significantly different

154. The Act of 2007 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 44:

“44A. (1) A commercial practice is misleading if—

(a) unless justified by legitimate and objective factors, it involves any marketing of goods in a Member State as being identical to goods marketed in other Member States where the goods have significantly different composition or characteristics, and

(b) the marketing would be likely to cause the average consumer to make a transactional decision that the average consumer would not otherwise make.

(2) In determining whether a commercial practice is misleading under subsection (1), the commercial practice shall be considered in its factual context, taking account of all of its features and the circumstances.”.