Recent developments in European Consumer Law

The EU Commission has recenetly published a comprehensive Study on Mapping Third Party Litigation Funding in the European Union incliuding ...

In Case C ‑ 529/19 ( here ), the CJEU interpreted the Consumer Rights Directive, particularly the right of withdrawal and its exceptions (Ar...

While the Commission clashes with Member States over airlines' vouchers-in-lieu-of-reimbursement policies (see our blog), similar appr...

Recently, the European Commission released the results of a screening (or ‘sweep’) of 481 retail e-shops (press release available here ). T...

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

Readers of this blog will know that 1,5 years ago the European Commission published a ' roadmap ' for an evaluation and fitness ch...

Last month, BEUC and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) held a joint conference on the enforcement of fundamental rights- not...

In a decision published yesterday, the ECJ clarified and reaffirmed a few points concerning the relationship between the information dutie...

While the elections for the European Parliament have started, it may be interesting to take some time to consider what is t...

In particular in the digital environment, consumers are more and more often facing questions concerning copyright. As the European consumer...

The European Parliament adopted yesterday a non-binding resolution addressing consumers' concerns with regards to the single market....

The Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee of the European Parliament adopted a nonbinding resolution this Tuesday in which it ...

Tomorrow, 4th of July, European Consumer Centres ( ECC-net ) will be offering advice to passengers at 28 airports across Europe. The purpos...

In 2011, over 70 000 consumers received free advice and assistence from the European Consumer Centres Network. The centres, established i...

Consumer protection in the past few years grew significantly in importance. As a result the European institutions do not limit themselves...

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

I mentioned yesterday ( Your voice in Europe ) that it is easy to follow upcoming policy and legislative initiatives of the European Commiss...

Yesterday, together with three colleagues , I attended a conference on 'Consumer legislation for digital products' that was organis...

The new EU Consumer Rights Directive has been formally adopted today by Member States in the EU's Council of Ministers. The works on thi...

Shortly before my weekend starts I wanted to share with you a video that I have watched recently. It's another inspiring TED Talk. This ...