MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2025/2971(RSP))
On protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms: the case of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products and material
B-10-2025-0496
on behalf of The Left Group · Rapporteur: Leila Chaibi
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This resolution condemns the sale of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products on e-commerce platforms and calls for stronger enforcement and liability.¶¶¶ It calls for suspending marketplaces until clarification, reviewing consumer protection rules, and ensuring fees on low-value parcels do not hit consumers.¶¶¶ It also addresses workers' rights in logistics, criticizes weakening of due diligence rules, and urges action on manipulative online practices.¶¶¶
Key points
- Condemns in the strongest terms the sale of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products on platforms like Shein, Temu, AliExpress, Wish, and Amazon.¶
- Condemns Shein's refusal to appear before a national parliament fact-finding mission and considers it essential that platform executives be summoned to Parliament's committee.¶¶
- Calls on the Commission to use all Digital Services Act tools, regrets the length of Article 51 procedures, and urges acceleration.¶
- Commends the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network and calls for reviewing the Consumer Protection Cooperation Regulation to strengthen cross-border enforcement.¶
- Calls for clarifying and increasing platforms' liability in Union Customs Code reform, defending the 'deemed importer' concept.¶
- Calls for immediate suspension of the marketplaces of the platforms concerned until clarification is achieved.¶
- Stresses the social aspect of e-commerce, linking higher buying power through fair wages to shifting consumers away from unsafe products.¶
- Calls on the Commission to explain how the handling fee on parcels under EUR 150 will be met by retailers or platforms, not passed to consumers.¶
- Calls on Member States and the Commission to use new resources from the handling fee to support market surveillance, customs, consumer protection and digital services authorities.¶
- Notes calls for non-EU traders to establish warehouses in the EU, but stresses deteriorating working conditions and challenges to workers' rights in logistics.¶¶
- Strongly condemns the gutting of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, saying it facilitates illegal products entering the EU.¶
- Calls for a digital fairness act to close loopholes on dark patterns, addictive design, and unfair influencer marketing.¶
Who is affected
- E-commerce platforms such as Shein, Temu, AliExpress, Wish, and Amazon, which face condemnation and potential suspension.¶¶
- EU consumers, who are to be protected from illegal products and whose buying power is linked to wages.¶
- Logistics workers in warehousing and delivery, whose rights are to be addressed.¶
- Non-EU traders, who may need to establish warehouses in the EU.¶