During the European Consumer Summit held on Monday 17th October in Brussels, Commissioner Věra Jourová announced the European Commission aims to create a “EU consumer rights code” that “ensures that the legal provisions are consistent, modern and also future-proof”. NEON, the network of energy ADR and ombudsmen bodies, has long been supporting the idea of …
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Focus: 92,335 energy-related disputes in 2015, 27.43% more than the previous year; The majority of complaints deal with invoicing and (e-)billing(47%), customer services, redress and privacy (11%) and provider change/switching (10%); NEON creates an “associate member” statute to enable more ADR entities to join the network. Members of NEON handled together 92,335 energy-related disputes in 2015, 27.43% more than the …
NEON: 92,335 energy-related disputes handled in 2015 Read More »
Members of NEON, the National Energy Ombudsmen Network, handled together 72,462 energy-related disputes in 2014. In total, the Ombudsman Services (GB) handled 52,913 energy-related disputes; the French Médiateur National de l’Energie, 14,412; the Belgian Ombudsdienst voor Energie/Service de Médiation de l’Energie, 4,819 and the Catalan Sindic, El defensor de les persones, 318. In 2015, …
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NEON, the National Energy Ombudsman Network, welcomes the European Commission Communication on “Delivering a New Deal for Energy Consumers” which aims at putting consumers at the core of a thriving and functioning energy system. NEON believes the Commission should Foster an ambitious Consumer Code to protect end consumers, Look carefully at the needs and interests of the different categories of consumers and how the system …
Position Paper: “Delivering a New Deal for Energy Consumers” Read More »
NEON concludes in order to support the effective functioning of the retail market and to ensure effective consumer protection, data management, and complaint monitoring could be improved. It is important to collate consistent and up-to-date data from all energy ombudsman and ADR entities, whether members of NEON or not, as well as information about the nature …
NEON conclusions on Data Management and Complaint Monitoring in the Energy Sector Read More »
Today, during the 7th Citizens’ Energy Forum , NEON, the National Energy Ombudsmen Network, presented the report on ADR in the Energy Sector in Europe conducted by Dr Naomi Creutzfeldt, ESRC Research Fellow, Fellow of Wolfson College Centre for Socio-Legal Studies – University of Oxford, and commissioned by NEON. The research reveals that although all Member States (at National or regional level) …
Independent Ombudsmen and ADR providers: building bridges in the energy market Read More »
NEON is the European network of independent, not-for-profit consumer dispute-resolution services and ombudsmen active in the energy sector. Our members have the public mandate to provide an easily-accessible and free-of-charge way to solve disputes between consumers and companies.
