Recent developments in European Consumer Law

The Commission has just announced a public consultation on digital fairness . The intitative comes within the New Consumer Agenda and it aim...

The Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) has published two interesting news reports this month.    First, on Jan 14 it has reported o...

European Commission published today two potentially game-changing proposals for the digital market: Digital Services Act (see here ) and Dig...

Another interesting piece of news from the past few days is the UK government announcing the setting up of the Digital Markets Unit (' N...

On May 18 the European Commission and national consumer protection authorities published their new sweep report revealing misleading commer...

In our earlier post we reported on the behavioural study on transparency of online platforms published by the Commission as part of its „ ...

In the UK the organisation Citizens Advice conducted a study of consumers subscribing to various services and discovered that on average...

On 18.3.2016 the European Commission (DG COMP) published an  issues paper  presenting its initial findings on geo-blocking practices in th...

Press digest Sharing economy Euractive reports (see here ) that the European Commission delayed the publication of its guidel...

Yesterday, the European Commission published two proposals aimed at harmonising the rules on two aspect of digital economies: sales of goo...

The European Commission has published a new Flash Eurobarometer 411 with results of a survey on "Cross-border access to online conten...

Many consumers are nowadays aware that they may purchase the same product online from the same trader at a different price in various count...

Yesterday, the EU Parliament Magazine recapped the priorities announced by the two Commissioners in charge of the Digital Single Market, ...

A nice thing about the week before the holidays is that usually a lot of packages arrive. The one I just opened contained a new book on ...

Secondly, the Commission adopted a communication on copyright today, which presents points of action to keep the EU's copyright framewo...

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

As promised, here is some more news on the European Commission's initiatives for the digital market: Today, the Commission presented it...

Any idea what are the costs of borrowing some money online? This is not supposed to be a trick question, but it turns out that some credit s...