Traduction de «After sales service company » (Anglais → Français) :

where applicable, the existence and the conditions of after sale customer assistance, after-sales services and commercial guarantees.

The need for uniformity arises from the fact that SMEs are in many cases active across borders through marketing or after-sales service companies (subsidiaries).

We are particularly concerned that the consumer will be exposed to the risk of a break in the sales and after-sales service link if the distributor is able to award after-sales service contracts to authorised repairers which are not subject to a location clause.

I must stress that it is particularly important to make the link between sales and after sales services less binding in a period when networks of dealers are being restructured and their numbers reduced.

The draft regulation also seeks to alter the, at present, extremely close link between the sale of new vehicles and after sales services.

For consumers, it is important to have after-sales and repair services located close by, and likewise to have adequate coverage throughout Europe when they travel. This requirement is crucial with regard to commercial vehicles, which constitute capital goods. It is therefore necessary to amend the proposal for a regulation to allow distributors who intend to subcontract after-sales services to repairers to determine their location. Only in this way will it be possible to guarantee consumers a network of 'authorised repairers' distributed evenly throughout the European Union (including in rural and outlying areas), so that all ...[+++]makes and models of vehicle can continue to benefit from an efficient after-sales network based on common standards.