Wednesday, 18 March 2015

15th conference of the International Association of Consumer Law

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Dear readers, the first draft of the program for the 15th conference of the International Association of Consumer Law has been published ...
Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Press digest

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Consumer Products & Sustainability Some of the recent press articles express concerns that some of popular consumer product...
Monday, 16 March 2015

Strict product liability for recall of medicinal devices - CJEU in Boston Scientific Medizintechnik GmbH (C-503/13 and C-504/13)

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5 March 2015: CJEU judgment in Boston Scientific Medizintechnik GmbH ( C-503/13 and C-504/13 ) Previously, we discussed the opinion of ...
Thursday, 12 March 2015

More fee certainty for consumers upcoming

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The European Parliament has approved a proposal for a Regulation on Interchange Fees for Card-based Payment Transactions . What is such ...
Thursday, 5 March 2015

E-books possibly more expensive in the future for certain European consumers

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Today, the ECJ decided that the rules in place in France and Luxemburg , that established a strongly reduced VAT for e-books, are in breac...
Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Advertising medicinal products

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On 3 March 2015 Advocate General Szpunar delivered his opinion in joined cases C-544/13 and C-545/13 Abcur . The Swedish case, which ...
Monday, 2 March 2015

Matei (C-143/13), or Kásler explained: what's the core of a (mortgage) credit contract?

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Last Thursday, the ECJ published its decision in Matei (C-143/13) , a Romanian case on unfair terms concerning two different credit contra...
Thursday, 26 February 2015

New German draft legislation establishing a collective action for data protection violations

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Germany’s consumer associations are powerful players when it comes to seeking injunctive relief. According to a draft legislation that ...
Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Consumer law as a solution to online privacy issues?

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Can (European) consumer law be used to help increase privacy protection online? Other solutions applied so far (e.g. mandatory disclosures ...

New digital single market strategy expected to kick off next May

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Yesterday, the EU Parliament Magazine recapped the priorities announced by the two Commissioners in charge of the Digital Single Market, ...