Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Third DSM package adopted

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On  25 May 2016 the European Commission adopted an extensive set of measures announced in the Digital Single Market Strategy. The  e-co...
Friday, 20 May 2016

Directive on tobacco products (sort of) in force

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Today, the implementation delay given to Member States to integrate the Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU) has elapsed. Many Member St...
Monday, 16 May 2016

Commission's public consultation for the Fitness Check of EU consumer and marketing law

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The European Commission has published an online questionnaire as part of the 'Fitness Check' of EU consumer and marketing law. The ...

EU Court of Justice launches application CVRIA

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For our readers who wish to stay up-to-date on the work of the EU Court of Justice: an application has been launched (for Android and Ap...
Friday, 29 April 2016

The EU is a step closer to regulating financial benchmarks

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Yesterday (28 April 2016) the EU Parliament approved by large majority the adoption of the proposed Regulation on financial benchmarks . Th...
Thursday, 21 April 2016

Taking ex officio a couple of steps further: CJEU in Radlinger v Finway (C‑377/14)

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Yesterday, the ECJ issued its decision in Radlinger v Finway. This decision contributes in several meaningful- albeit not revolutionary- ...

Dutch Supreme Court on effective remedies for consumers

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A recent development in the area of European consumer law we have not yet reported on this blog is a recent judgment of the Supreme Court...
Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Forbes column

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Our readers may be interested to know that prof. Omri Ben-Shahar from the University of Chicago started publishing a consumer law related c...
Friday, 15 April 2016

Oceano meets Francovich: AG Wahl on state liability and unfair terms

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Yesterday, AG Wahl turned in his opinion in case C-168/15 ( here , in French), a Slovakian controversy concerning a seemingly exploitative...
Thursday, 14 April 2016

Individual unfairness claims prevail over collective ones - CJEU in C-381/14, C-385/14 (Sales Sinués)

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We've previously discussed the opinion of AG Szpunar on this matter ( Collective actions may not replace individual ones... ). The CJEU...