During the course of European integration, consumer protection and health protection have gradually developed into independent policy areas and goals of the EU, alongside and supplemental to the realisation of the Single Market. Under the European treaties, the EU is now not only under an express duty to ensure a high level of consumer and human health protection, but according to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights everyone has also the right of access to preventive health care and the right to benefit from medical treatment. cep keeps track of EU legislative proposals which are of economic relevance in these fields.
