Recent developments in European Consumer Law

The European Commission asks for feedback on the draft contract summary template, which all consumers must receive from e-communication ser...

In an interesting judgment ( X , joined cases C-360/15 and C-31/16) the CJEU has decided to broaden the scope of application of the Service...

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

Earlier today, the long-awaited opinion  of Advocate-General Szpunar in case C‑434/15 Uber Spain was published. The analysis concerns one o...

It is not the first time that the CJEU has to assess the compliance with EU law of Belgian law and its tendency to absolutely prohibit cert...

Clearing up our backlog, on 26 October 2016 the CJEU issued a judgement on the interpretation of Art. 6 and 7 of the Unfair Commercial Prac...

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...

8 May 2014: AG Wahl's opinion in Schulz ( C-359/11 and C-400/11 ) During the liberalisation of the energy market, the European legi...

Today, the CJEU held in Pelckmans Turnhout II that the Belgian requirement for businesses to observe one day of rest per week cannot be c...

While the authors of this blog were enjoying the consumer law conference in Oxford (more on this in a later post), the CJEU handed down its...

Last week the European Economic and Social Committee announced that its Single Market Observatory is conducting a survey on the implementa...

Last week, 4 February, the European Parliament also approved the new Directive on collective management of copyright and related rights an...

The ECC-Net published a report "Enhanced Consumer Protection - the Services Directive 2006/123/EC. Analysis of Article 20.2 and Artic...

What responsibilities do digital service providers have towards copyright holders? Can an internet provider be required to block access to ...

Online gambling is quite a controversial service in Europe. In general, European countries are allowed to put restrictions on provision of ...

I have written my PhD about various fall-traps that consumers may stumble into while having someone construct their house. Notwithstandin...

On 10th of September the European Parliament adopted a resolution " Online gambling in the internal market " calling upon the Eur...

18 July 2013: CJEU in case Sky Italia ( C-234/12 ) One of the goals of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive ( 2010/13/EU ) is to pr...

Dear readers,  some of you will remember a post from the spring concerning unfair contract terms in the German energy retail market. I...

Yesterday, the Court of Justice delivered an important and complex judgement on (unfair) general terms and conditions in a very special se...