Recent developments in European Consumer Law

Today , the new Single European Payments area is officially in force.  Based on the cooperation of European banks, the system provides a...

One of the worries with regards to consumers' privacy protection is that consumers often remain unaware of their data being gathered an...

The European Commission opened yesterday a public consultation with regard to the consumer safety when using tourism accommodation. While i...

The talented Irene Falgueras López designed our first conference flyer (see below). Please feel free to share and drop me a line if you wo...

Yesterday the EU Council of Ministers adopted the Directive on the transparency and comparability of payment account fees, payment accoun...

Scottish tartans soon protected as GI? While others are on holiday, the Commission launched a Green Paper consultation on a possible e...

Last October, an expert group on cloud computing contracts was established by the European Commission. In a recent discussion paper , cons...

We have mentioned previously on this blog the need for better consumer protection against misleading applications that consumers use while ...

In the wake of the European Court of Justice's groundbreaking judgment in  Aziz  (on which we reported last year), a number of cases r...

The Academy of European Law (ERA) organizes in Trier on 9-10 October 2014 the Annual Conference on European Consume...