Monday, 29 May 2017

REFIT report of EU consumer law: exciting times ahead

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Readers of this blog will know that 1,5 years ago the European Commission published a ' roadmap ' for an evaluation and fitness ch...
Wednesday, 24 May 2017

EuCML - call for papers on digital sphere and consumers

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CALL FOR PAPERS New technologies are evolving at a fast rate, serving consumers and posing new threats in equal measures. It is for law...
Tuesday, 16 May 2017

New roaming rules in books and in action - several insights from Poland

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How did this all come about? Reduction of roaming surcharges in the EU is one of the European legislator's flagship projects, perce...
Thursday, 11 May 2017

Services provided by Uber are services in the field of transport, not information society services - Advocate-General says

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Earlier today, the long-awaited opinion  of Advocate-General Szpunar in case C‑434/15 Uber Spain was published. The analysis concerns one o...

Notifying about cancelled flights - CJEU in Krijgsman (C-302/16)

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An interesting judgment on air passenger rights has been given today by the Court of Justice in the case Krijgsman ( C-302/16 ). It clarifi...

Transparency: where art thou in consumer protection?

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TRANSPARENCY: WHERE ART THOU IN CONSUMER PROTECTION? Date: 27 June 2017 Place: Laver LT3 Moderator: Joasia Luzak (University...
Monday, 8 May 2017

Public consultation on FinTech: closes 15 June 2017

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The EU Commission is currently holding a public consultation on FinTech (see here ). FinTech, standing for financial technologies, means t...

EU Commission adopts the Consumer Financial Services Action Plan

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In March 2017 the EU Commission published a Consumer Financial Services Action Plan: Better Products, More Choice , setting out the strategy...

Ban on advertising of dental practices contrary to EU (not consumer) law - CJEU in Vanderborght (C-339/15)

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It is not the first time that the CJEU has to assess the compliance with EU law of Belgian law and its tendency to absolutely prohibit cert...
Thursday, 4 May 2017

A bird or a whole flock? CJEU again on extraordinary circumstances and Regulation 261/04

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Today, the Court of Justice had to decide yet another case on extraordinary circumstances and flight disruptions under the Air Passenger R...