Recent developments in European Consumer Law

Have you watched the animation movie "Wall-E"? If yes, you should remember the sad prediction of the human kind's future made...

A recent article in the Guardian nicely points out that even though certain unfair commercial practices may be prohibited in Europe, even i...

I've stumbled upon some articles regarding European consumers attitude to shopping online. A study by Bazaarvoice suggests that there i...

What views on consumers inform the development of the law in the EU? Professor Stephen Weatherill and Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz ar...

A few weeks ago, we've mentioned that the EU Commission intends to further strengthen and harmonise the telecommunication market so t...

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...

11 July 2013: CJEU judgment in case Belgian Electronic Sorting Technology ( C-657/11 ) In this judgment the CJEU determined what could ...

On July 11, 2013 the new EU Cosmetics Regulation ( 1223/2009 of 30 November 2009) came into force with an aim to strengthen existing saf...

Summer holidays are almost behind us and accordingly tomorrow is the last day for completing a European Commission's survey regardin...

On the 6th of May 2013 the European Commission announced its plan to change some of the existing measures with respect to health and safet...