Consumer typologies reveal categories of the consumer that stretch from the vulnerable to the empowered notion of the consumer
citizen. At the empowered end of this spectrum, consumers in Europe have a developing, normative, organisational structure
that provides channels for the consumer voice to influence consumer policy at the European level. This is an organisational
structure with mechanisms for developing an effective consumer empowerment and enforcement framework across all EU Member
States. It is a framework that forms a coherent whole with the European-level consumer institutions. This paper examines the
integrated nature of these institutions and their role in influencing the development of consumer policy through a multi-level
platform of new governance. It discusses the normative processes that, through empowerment and engagement, are encouraging
a consumer citizenship practice to exploit these channels of communication in order to influence policy development.
Keywords Consumer citizenship practice - Governance - Policy - Process