Recent developments in European Consumer Law

11 September 2014: CJEU judgment in case Papasavvas and Others ( C-291/13 ) Over a week ago the CJEU issued an important judgment in th...

While many EU consumers travel more during the summer months they tend to bring souvenirs back home. Maybe that is the reason why EU Custom...

Last Thursday, 11 July 2013, the Court of Justice of the EU handed down its judgment in Case C-521/11 Amazon v Austro-Mechana. The case co...

Last year we posted about the EU Customs trying to protect consumers from counterfeit goods by strengthening the examination of products en...

Just a short update: the Orphan Works Directive was adopted yesterday by the Council. Upon a publication in the Official Journal of the EU ...

"Got a real bargain when I bought this Louis Vuitton wallet for 10 euro". Well, who doesn't like a bargain? Some bargains...

Yesterday, as it was expected, the European Parliament rejected the ACTA. We have been posting about critical approach of all the commissio...

Just a short update on ACTA (see last: ACTA under more fire ). Next week the European Parliament will have to decide whether to accept or...

We have mentioned previously that the European Commission considered referring ACTA to the CJEU as potentially infringing fundamental rig...

Today the European Data Protection Supervisor ( EDPS ) issued another opinion on the threat to the protection of personal data and privac...

Last week the European Commission decided the details of its referral of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA ) to the CJEU in ord...

16 February 2012: CJEU's judgement in case Sabam (C-360/10) The CJEU published today a judgement that is important for consumers' ...

I mentioned yesterday the controversial project of a bill Protect IP (" Protect IP "). In protest to this bill (as well as the ...

Protect IP (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011) is a bill that is under d...

4 October 2011: ECJ case C-403/08 Football Association Premier League and Others Last post for today concerns the ECJ ruling of 4 October 2...

On 12 September, a Directive was adopted that extends copyright of performing musicians from 50 years to 70 years after recording. The Dire...

Since the subject of protection of intellectual property rights online came up recently on this blog (see a note on L'Oreal v eBay case ...

A nuclear bomb has just exploded in the online auction world that could possibly change the business model adopted by eBay and other Onli...

I've recently read an article " E-books drive older women to digital piracy " on The Telegraph . It presents interesting findi...

Are you familiar with Google News ? It's a search engine of many of the news sources which means it refers consumers who go online in se...