Monday, 29 January 2018

Report on the procedural protection of consumers

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The European Commission has published a long-awaited report (see our previous blog posts here ,  here and here ) on the impact of national...
Friday, 26 January 2018

Max Schrems is a consumer - with respect to his own claims, Court says

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Source: https://twitter.com/maxschrems Yesterday, on 25 January, the  judgment in the second high profile case concerning the battle o...
Thursday, 25 January 2018

E-cigarettes not the same as cigarettes - Commission decides against harmonisation of duties for e-cigarettes

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Consumption of e-cigarettes is on the rise with consumers using them as they consider them a ‘healthier’ alternative to traditional cigare...
Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Procedural autonomy and effectiveness - a delicate balance; Opinion of AG Wahl in C-483/16 Sziber

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For those who are interested in consumer credit agreements in a foreign currency , the legal consequences of unfair terms and  the 'pro...
Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Consumer Law in the Data Economy - conference invitation

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Below you may find the programme for the conference on "Consumer Law in the Data Economy" which will take place on Friday, April 1...
Saturday, 13 January 2018

The brave new world of open banking: a bit more on PSD2

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The 13th of January 2018 is an important date in advancing the framework of financial consumer protection. From today the Second Payment Se...
Friday, 12 January 2018

More on PSD2

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As anticipated yesterday , tomorrow is the deadline for MS to implement the Payment Services Directive two. Here some recap and useful lin...
Thursday, 11 January 2018

Charging consumers extra - how will PSD2 be enforced?

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The rules of the Payments Services Directive 2 (PSD2) are to start applying in the Member States as of January 13th. A few days before th...
Wednesday, 10 January 2018

The new rules on financial benchmarks: are consumers adequately protected?

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Starting with 1 January 2018 the new Regulation on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts or to measur...
Thursday, 4 January 2018

Shopper-gate going on in Italy

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Assuming at least some of our readers will be interested in the interface between consumer issues and environmental measures, what follows...