More to do for the Fairness Commission

Last year, the Commission for Fair Trading received 265 complaints (including preliminary proceedings), compared with 196 in 2001. The Commission is still primarily concerned with direct advertising. However, its share has fallen from 59.4 percent to 49.8 percent. The most complaints were about competitions (20.2 percent) and misleading advertising (16.6 percent). Sexism was the issue in 6.9 percent of cases. The annual report on the activities of the Commission on Fair Trading can be downloaded as a PDF document from the website www.lauterkeit.ch.