Monday, 31 October 2011

European Competition and Consumer Day

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On 24-25 November in Poznan (Poland) there will be an event organized to celebrate the European Competition and Consumer Day . Every year ...
Friday, 28 October 2011

AG Mengozzi: Scope of Product Liability Directive does not extend to service providers using defective products

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The Opinion by Advocate General Mengozzi in Centre hospitalier universitaire de Besançon (case C-495/10) concerns the scope of the Product ...
Thursday, 27 October 2011

A moment for our readers

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Originally, I created this blog in order to keep in touch with developments in European consumer law. It gave me a motivation to look up the...

Should medical tourism be reimbursed by national social security system? - CJEU case in Commission v. Portugal C-255/09

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27 October 2010: CJEU case C-255/09 Commission v. Portugal Unfortunately, the fall while often beautiful in its various colours also leaves...
Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Where to sue for harmful online content? CJEU case in eDate Advertising and Martinez/Martinez (C-509/09, C-161/10)

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25 October 2011: CJEU joined cases C-509/09 and C-161/10 eDate Advertising and Martinez/Martinez Today CJEU gave judgment in eDate Adverti...
Monday, 24 October 2011

When the going gets tough... get tough on insider dealing and market manipulation

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A few days ago the European Commission released a new proposal for a Regulation on insider dealing and market manipulation (together these ...
Sunday, 23 October 2011

Shortcomings of a financial market to be healed by a short selling regulation

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In May this year we reported that a draft Regulation on short selling and credit default swaps ( Short selling regulation? ) is being prepa...
Friday, 21 October 2011

Any thoughts on the internal market?

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If you are interested in sharing them, finding out what others think and getting some answers from the European Commission as to any doubts ...

What's the score? - Consumer Markets Scoreboard Autumn 2011

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The 6th Consumer Markets Scoreboard is now available on the website of the European Commission, DG Health and Consumers . The Scoreboard is...
Sunday, 16 October 2011

World Food Day

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Today is a World Food Day which was proclaimed in 1979 by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It basically remin...