Thursday, 30 November 2017

Between equivalence and effectiveness: Opinion of AG Sharpston on unfair terms control in default proceedings

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Today, Advocate General Sharpston delivered her Opinion in a Belgian case ( C-147/16 :  Karel de Grote Hogeschool v Susan Kuijpers ) on the ...
Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Temptation of subscriptions

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In the UK the organisation Citizens Advice conducted a study of consumers subscribing to various services and discovered that on average...
Tuesday, 28 November 2017

New EU regulation on organic farming

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The Proposal for a new Regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products was approved by the Agricultural Committee of...
Monday, 27 November 2017

Towards the creation of the EU Financial Consumer Protection Agency?

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A couple of months ago we reported on the results of the public consultation on the Operation of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESA...
Tuesday, 21 November 2017

More consumer access to cross-border online services

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The European institutions reached an agreement on further EU approach to "unjustified" geoblocking of online consumer products or...
Thursday, 16 November 2017

New Commission study on insurance services

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On 27 th October the European Commission published a  study on consumers’ decision making in insurance services. Insurance services a...

Is Max Schrems a consumer? AG Bobek in C-498/16

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On Tuesday, 14th November, Advocate-General Bobek delivered an important opinion in case  C-498/16  Schrems v Facebook. Readers of this blo...