Monday, 21 November 2016

Addressing financial innovation: the launch of a New Task Force on Financial Technology

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Last week the Commission has launched a Task Force on Financial Technology focusing on the FinTech sector (see the press release here ). Fin...
Thursday, 17 November 2016

AG Szpunar: after-sales helplines should be available at the cost of standard calls

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Case C-568/15 Zentrale zur Bekämpfung unlauteren Wettbewerbs Frankfurt am Main  is a sign that one of the most recent EU legal acts in the ...
Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Complex pricing in TV and other adverts - CJEU in Canal Digital Danmark (C-611/14)

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Clearing up our backlog, on 26 October 2016 the CJEU issued a judgement on the interpretation of Art. 6 and 7 of the Unfair Commercial Prac...

If it talks like a seller... - CJEU in Wathelet (C-149/15)

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Last week the CJEU also issued a judgement in the Wathelet case ( C-149/15 ) concerning interpretation of the Consumer Sales Directive (CSD...
Monday, 14 November 2016

ECJ in Home Credit Slovakia (C-42/15): MS can impose written form for the conclusion of credit contracts

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Last week, the Court of Justice issued its decision in Home Credit Slovakia, C-42/15 . We have already covered the AG's opinion on th...
Thursday, 20 October 2016

ECJ: dynamic IP addresses can be personal data- and yet websites may be able to store them without consent

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Yesterday, the Court of Justice delivered its decision in Breyer v Bundesrepublik Deutschland (C-582/14, not yet available in English), a ...
Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Comparing prices in hyper- and supermarkets - AG Saugmandsgaard Øe in Carrefour Hypermarchés (C-562/12)

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AG Saugmandsgaard Øe has issued an opinion today in the case C-562/12 ( Carrefour Hypermarchés ) concerning an issue of a potential misle...
Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Putting an end to silos enforcement of consumer (data protection) rights?

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Last month, BEUC and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) held a joint conference on the enforcement of fundamental rights- not...
Monday, 3 October 2016

Tax increase on consumer goods - an effective nudging tool?

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There is an interesting article in today's The Guardian by P. Barkham on how the introduction of a 5p charge for plastic bags last year...
Thursday, 29 September 2016

Online portal for participating in EU legislative processes

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Within the Better Regulation Agenda , the EU Commission has launched an online portal over the summer that enables everyone to follow and t...