Showing posts with label COVID-19. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COVID-19. Show all posts
Friday, 9 August 2024

Insolvency protection for cancelled trips amidst Covid-19: CJEU in HDI GLobal and MS Amlin Isurance (C-771/22 and C-45/23)

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The immediate impact of the pandemic might be on the wane, but the legal battlefield continues. In HDI Global and MS Amlin Insurance ( Join...
Tuesday, 20 June 2023

National law temporarily exempting travel organisers from full refund in cash ruled not compatible with EU law (Case C-407/21)

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As expected, some of the disputes regarding the termination of travel related contracts due to the Covid-19 outbreak have arrived at the att...
Monday, 12 June 2023

Costs of repatriation flights during Covid-19 not covered by Regulation 261/2004 - CJEU in Austrian Airlines (C-49/22)

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On Thursday, June 8th, the CJEU issued a judgment in the Austrian Airlines  case ( C-49/22 ). The national court asked for help with interpr...
Sunday, 5 February 2023

Price reduction for travel services not performed due to pandemic - CJEU in FTI Touristik (C-396/21)

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On January 12, the CJEU issued a judgment in FTI Touristik ( C-396/21 ) as to the application of the Package Travel Directive  (Directive (E...
Sunday, 27 November 2022

Right of withdrawal, leisure activities and intermediaries - CJEU in Eventim (C-96/21)

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Earlier this year in  C-96/21 CTS Eventim  the CJEU delivered another interesting judgment on the interpretation of  Directive 2011/83/EU on...
Thursday, 21 October 2021

Reflecting on EU (package) travel law in 2021: travel platforms in a regulatory blind spot?

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The EU legislature has been pushing for the harmonisation of consumer protection in the travel sector for several decades now. The entire pr...
Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Update: Air passenger rights

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In the busy past academic year we might have missed to report important consumer news. We will try to update the blog with the relevant refe...
Monday, 15 March 2021

Covid-19's impact on consumer behaviour patterns

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Last week the Commission published the new Key Consumer 2020 data following from the Consumer Scoreboard 2020 , which documents the changes...
Thursday, 10 December 2020

The New Consumer Protection Agenda 2020-25

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Last month, on November 13 2020 the EU Commission adopted its new Consumer Protection Agenda 2020-25 that will provide the strategic framew...
Tuesday, 9 June 2020

CMA pushes for refunds of cancelled holiday bookings

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We have previously reported on the EU Commission's recommendation regarding cancelled flights (asking airlines to make vouchers an attr...
Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Coronavirus and digital finance: public consultations and other initiatives

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The current coronavirus pandemic made our financial lives exclusively digital. This raised new challenges but also opened new opportunities...
Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Free online seminars on consumer law

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In response to the current outbreak of COVID-19 T he Academy of European Law (ERA) is one of the companies that provides some of their serv...
Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Coronavirus and unfairness: scams and unfair practices

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Dear readers, The news is full of warnings of scams and other unfair practices that consumers are exposed to these days. Using the word...