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Press releases and activities organized by CEC Spain to promote consumer awareness.

Consumer Affairs encourages all Spanish cities to join the Ministry's investigation into illegal tourist flats

The Ministry seeks to identify homes that are advertised as tourist properties without the necessary permits and warns of the possibility of sanctions.

Consumer Affairs imposes first sanctions for "false sales" in the middle of the summer sales campaign

90,000 euros in fines against two online retail operators for misleading sales and proceedings opened against six other companies with proposed fines of more than half a million euros.

New campaign to ensure that the management fees for the online purchase of tickets for events comply with the regulations

Consumer Affairs recalls that the handling fee should be included in the price advertised in the sales channel, and should be a fixed amount that should not vary according to the price.

Consumer Affairs wants to corroborate that supermarkets pass on the VAT reduction on olive oil to consumers

Further requests for information are sent to the main national supermarket and hypermarket chains to check that they pass on the 0% VAT reduction to final consumers.

CNMC fines Booking.com 413.24 million for abusing its dominant position over the last 5 years

By better positioning hotels with more bookings on Booking.com, it has prevented other online agencies from entering the market or expanding.

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