Showing posts with label consumer protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consumer protection. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Commission opens official DSA investigation into SHEIN

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  While the announced Digital Fairness Act proposal remains so far at the announcement stage, the last few months have brought to light the ...
Tuesday, 25 February 2025

"Initial commitment period" of two years in phone subscriptions - aka when is long enough long enough? CJEU in C‑612/23

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 Many readers will have had the experience - signing up for a new mobile (phone) contract and opting for the 2-year commitment in order to o...
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...
Tuesday, 28 April 2020

Only natural persons can be consumers – CJEU in Condominio di Milano, via Meda (C-329/19)

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On the 2 nd of April 2020, the CJEU decided on the Condominio di Milano case ( here ). The case concerned the concept of consumer unde...
Wednesday, 18 March 2020

Case C‑511/17 Unicredit Bank Hungary: Ex officio unfairness assessment limited to subject matter and to existing legal and factual elements

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In   the case C-511/17, the CJEU followed the AG’s opinion closely (about which we wrote here ). The case deals with the scope of the obliga...
Friday, 21 February 2020

‘Paying’ with personal data – what rights do consumers have?

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The recently approved Directive on the modernization of consumer protection rules (available here ) explicitly extended the scope of the Co...
Tuesday, 28 January 2020

BEUC’s 7 recommendations for post-Brexit positive consumer protection

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With Brexit finally approaching, the questions surrounding the legal uncertainty that will most likely follow the UK's departure from ...
Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Ex officio unfairness assessment limited to contractual clauses connected to the dispute – Opinion of AG Tanchev in Case C‑511/17 Unicredit Bank Hungary

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On the 19 th of December 2019, AG Tanchev delivered an Opinion on Case C-511/17 (found here ), which deals with the scope of the obligati...
Friday, 3 May 2019

The last decade of EU consumer law

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IMCO committee of the European Parliament has commissioned a report with Osnabr ü ck University on the last decade of achievements in Europ...
Thursday, 28 March 2019

Conference on the New Deal for Consumers

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On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 April 2019 the conference 'A New Deal for Civil Justice? The New Deal for Consumers and the Justiciability ...
Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Confusing Grand Chamber judgment on 'accelerated repayment clauses' in mortgage loan contracts (C-70/17 and C-179/17)

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Yesterday the Grand Chamber of the EU Court of Justice gave judgment in two Spanish cases on so-called 'accelerated repayment clauses...
Wednesday, 16 January 2019

A New Deal for Civil Justice? The New Deal for Consumers and the Justiciability of EU Consumer Rights

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The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) holds its annual conference on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 April 2019 at the Univers...
Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Second-guess or second instance: Opinion of AG Szpunar in five cases on the EU Court of Justice and differences of interpretation between lower, higher and highest national (civil) courts

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" La protection du consommateur est ainsi devenue un des chapitres essentiels du droit de l’Union qui, avec une double dimension – tan...
Friday, 10 August 2018

Double default: on default interest and default rules

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Tuesday 7 August 2018, the last date on the judicial calendar of the CJEU before summer recess, was a busy day. Two of the cases on the doc...