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13 December 2007

MEPs vote to end car part protection

Emma Barraclough, London

Drivers who bump their car in the garage or scrape its bodywork in a collision could soon find the damage cheaper to repair after a vote in the European Parliament yesterday

MEPs backed a Commission proposal that would end design protection for spare car parts and other machinery components, giving consumers more choice about who to buy the spare part from.

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