Recent developments in European Consumer Law

On 12th October the European Commission published the 2018 Consumer Markets Scoreboard . The Consumer Scoreboard provides an overview of ...

On 28 th March, the EU Commission put forward a Proposal for a Regulation that will reduce charges for bank transfers in the European Uni...

Judgment of the CJEU in  C-312/14 Banif Plus Bank Zrt. v Márton Lantos and Mártonné Lantos  delivered on 3 December 2015  The Hungarian...

Opinion of Advocate General Jääskinen delivered on 17 September 2015 The Hungarian District Court of Ráckeve (Ráckevei Járásbíróság)...

Consumer Products & Sustainability Some of the recent press articles express concerns that some of popular consumer product...

Mobile banking The Financial Times Adviser discusses the ongoing plans to regulate on the European level mobile banking ( Gettin...

Cloud computing New research suggests that 72% of European cloud users still are not able to answer any questions as to where th...

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

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

Last week, the European Parliament voted in its plenary session on a few proposals that are important for consumers and their fate needs to...

As we have mentioned previously the European Commission and the European Parliament have been working hard together in the past years on ...

Yesterday it was announced that the European Central Bank supports the new European directive on payment services in the internal market. ...

Best wishes for 2014! That being said it is time to leave behind the holidays' spirit and to update our dear readers on what is going o...

Yesterday, the European Parliament voted in favour of draft legislation giving anyone legally residing within the EU a right to open a ban...