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The director of Russia's consumer-protection agency said the ban had taken effect on Thursday morning and all vegetables already shipped in from the European Union would be seized across Russia, AFP reported.

Russian Ban Surprises Brazil Beef Industry, Regulators Paul Kiernan 2011

Morgan executive to ask for the bank's support in creating a new consumer-protection agency, the executive--former Commerce Secretary William Daley--said no, according to people familiar with the conversation.

HUFFPOST HILL - 112th Congress Back-And-Forth Begins Eliot Nelson 2011

Fair-trade advocates complain that recent WTO rulings against U.S. meat-origin and dolphin-safe labeling are undermining consumer-protection measures.

WTO Rules Against U.S. Meat-Label Rules Tom Barkley 2011

Michael Calhoun , president of the Durham, N.C.-based Center for Responsible Lending, at a Senate hearing in July called the loans an "immediate crisis" the consumer-protection bureau should address.

Banks' Direct-Deposit Advances Spark Lending Debate Maya Jackson Randall 2011

"If there were consumer-protection laws for shoes," Mr. Weitzman says, "that should be one."

Wanted for Assault Christina Binkley 2011

But partisan battles in Washington haven't stopped the watchdog from building up its market-research unit, evaluating consumers' credit-card gripes, examining the inner workings of some of the nation's largest banks and laying the groundwork for new consumer-protection rules.

The 2012 Regulatory and Market Landscape 2012

The San Francisco-based bank didn't admit to or deny those allegations, but the settlement was the biggest-ever Fed fine in a consumer-protection case and the first federal regulatory case addressing subprime-borrower steering.

Court Hits Wells Over Mortgages Ruth Simon 2011

The settlement is far short of the $16.7 million fine that American Eagle could have faced under a raft of consumer-protection rules enacted in April 2010.

U.S. Levies First Tarmac-Delay Fine Doug Cameron 2011

In addition, the bureau—which has the task of ensuring that financial firms adhere to fair-lending and other consumer-protection rules—intends to keep an eye on the mortgage industry through its new supervision program, launched in July.

The 2012 Regulatory and Market Landscape 2012

He eventually will run a new consumer-protection group, to be spun out of the FSA, called the Financial Conduct Authority.

'China Is the New Dot-Com,' Says Outgoing Securities Chief Kate O'Keeffe 2011