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How Can Citizens Advice Bureau Spain Benefit You?

As an expatriate living in Spain; do you find that the Spanish bureaucratic system can be disconcerting? Have you discovered that the simplest of transactions are difficult to conclude? Find yourself searching for answers to problems only to discover that there is nowhere where you could find a solution? I am assuming that the answer is yes and that is why should be a member of our web site if you arent already.

Electricity Companies Denounced – Again

November 11, 2014 FACUA, one of the largest consumer organisations in Spain, have denounced all Spanish electricy companies for wrongly charging a higher rental price for the new digital meters than established by law. The law states that a high

France Bans ´programmed Obsolescence´ Consumer Goods - Spain To Follow?

An example for those not familiar with the term ´Programmed Obsolescence´. This is a built-in feature that will tell your printer to stop functioning after X amount of copies, just so you will go and buy a new one. Forced consumerism in other

Grants For Consumer Organisations

Published in the BOE this week, Resolution of 10th of September 2014, by the Spanish Agency for Consumption, Food Security and Nutrition. Stating the subsidies that were applied for and granted to consumer organisations to realize activities re

Electricity Rates Higher Than Ever. Spain Denounced

After the discount that had to be applied over the rates that had been charged to Spanish consumers during the first three months of this year, which most of us have received in July, August has brought another increase in the tariff, resulting

Survey Itv Rates By Consumer Organisation Facua

Consumer Organisation FACUA has published the inventarisation of maximum ITV rates, noting the differences between 2013 and 2014. It appears that prices vary widely, up to 113% difference for cars, and up to 202% for small motorcycles. Bad luck

Spanish Tax Payers To Rescue Developers And Banks Again

  Yet again, Spanish government will have the tax payers take up a private debt. An agreement with the 6 major Spanish banks and the property developers involved in the financing and constructing of 10 tollroads in Spain, currently in the r