1. It imposes a single method, EU wide, to calculate interests and charges for said credits.
2. It encourages cross-border loans.
3. It improves competition between European credit entities.
4. It sets common rules on the information which must be provided to loan/credit candidates before they take out the loan as well as establishes the data that must appear in the contract.
Bear in mind that there are currently excessive differences between average interest rates and percentages on offer in the Euro zone; from the Portuguese 12% to the Finnish 6% -in Spain it is 9.4%-.
Although it is to be expected that the majority of the member states will not assume or adopt this rule until 2009 or 2010, the unification of legal criteria is always in the citizens’ best interest in order to avoid discrimination, damages and doubts.
For further information, please contact Alex Ensesa Casulleras : [email protected]