Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Airlines need to compensate passengers of delayed flights - confirmation of the CJEU's Sturgeon case by the AG Bot in cases C-581/10 and C-629/10

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15 May 2012: opinion of the Advocate General Bot in joined cases C-581/10 and C-629/10 (Nelson and Others, TUI Travel and Others) Thes...
Sunday, 13 May 2012

Hello? Hello? - on affordable use of mobile phones abroad

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We have posted before about the planned changes in the roaming costs for people travelling across the EU. ( Towards no stress roaming ) Las...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Consumer credit for dummies - new guidelines

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One of the most recent consumer law directives adopted by the European Commission was the Consumer Credit Directive ( 2008/48/EC ). Yest...

RAPEX - keeping the danger at bay

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RAPEX a is a rapid alert system that has been set up to detect dangerous non-food products that enter the European market from third cou...

Europe and you

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As a follow-up to the previous post, other initiatives for European citizens (also in their capacity of consumers) are: 1. The launch o...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Erasmus, anyone?

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I begin my contribution to this blog with a slightly off-topic post. Tomorrow, or today- the 9th of May, by any means, is Europe day! T...

eHealth

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We talk about e-commerce, e-communications, e-privacy, and taking into account the widespread use and influence of the internet in and on...
Monday, 7 May 2012

European TV

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In 2010 the Audiovisual Media Services Directive ( 2010/13/EU ) was adopted and this week the European Commission presented the first rep...

Responsible (adversiting of) drinking

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Continuing the theme of describing actions undertaken in the EU to make EU consumers healthier, it is worth it to mention that eight of...
Friday, 4 May 2012

Reducing salt intake

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Recently the European Commission published a report on the implementation of the EU Salt Reduction Framework by the Member States. The M...