Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Follow up: RWE v Verbraucherzentrale NRW

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

9th Consumer Conditions Scoreboard

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On 23 July the European Commission published recent results of 2013 Consumer Conditions Scoreboard ( Consumer Scoreboard: more action need...
Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Paying your dues - a new package on Payment Services

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On July 24, the European Commission published a new, revised version of the Payment Services Directive as well as a proposal for a Regulati...
Monday, 29 July 2013

Sponsored publications as unfair commercial practices - AG Wathelet in C-391/12 (RLvS)

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11 July 2013: opinion Advocate General Wathelet in case C-391/12 ( RLvS ) RLvS publishes daily various advertisements in a journal call...

Functional concept of a 'trader' - AG Bot in case C-59/12 (BKK Mobil Oil)

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4 July 2013: opinion of Advocate General Bot in case C-59/12 ( BKK Mobil Oil ) Due to the holiday period we might have missed a case or...
Friday, 26 July 2013

Summer reading

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One final question on the holiday checklist could be what to read during the holidays. If you are looking for some recent literature in the...

Holiday checklist

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European travellers, and perhaps also students of EU law who are finalising their Master theses during the Summer months, might be interest...
Monday, 22 July 2013

To see the Summer sky

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At the end of last week, European consumer organisation BEUC published a position paper on the revision of EU Regulation 261/04 ...
Thursday, 18 July 2013

On healthy diets - CJEU judgment in Case C-299/12 Green Swan

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Finally, the Court of Justice delivered another judgment concerning the ethics of advertising and marketing (it makes one wonder what the C...

No combination of car and insurance in advertising - CJEU judgment in Case C-256/12 Citroën Belux

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In another case in which the CJEU ruled today, Citroën Belux BV , the scope of EU law concerning unfair commercial practices was at stake. ...