Information on representative actions
Article 13
1. Member States shall lay down rules ensuring that qualified entities provide information, in particular on their website, about: (a) the representative actions they have decided to bring before a court or administrative authority; (b) the status of the representative actions they have brought before a court or administrative authority; and (c) the outcomes of the representative actions referred to in points (a) and (b). 2. Member States shall lay down rules to ensure that the consumers concerned by an ongoing representative action for redress measures are provided with information about the representative action in a timely manner and by appropriate means, in order to enable those consumers to explicitly or tacitly express their wish to be represented in that representative action pursuant to Article 9(2). 3. Without prejudice to the information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, the court or administrative authority shall require the trader to inform the consumers concerned by the representative action, at the trader’s expense, of any final decisions providing for the measures referred to in Article 7 and any approved settlements as referred to in Article 11, by means appropriate to the circumstances of the case and within specific time limits, including, where appropriate, informing all consumers concerned individually. This obligation shall not apply if the consumers concerned are informed of the final decision or approved settlement in another manner. Member States may lay down rules under which the trader would only be required to provide such information to consumers if requested to do so by the qualified entity. 4. The information requirements referred to in paragraph 3 shall apply mutatis mutandis to qualified entities concerning final decisions on the rejection or dismissal of representative actions for redress measures. 5. Member States shall ensure that the successful party can recover the costs related to providing information to consumers in the context of the representative action, in accordance with Article 12(1).