Tuesday, 28 January 2020

BEUC’s 7 recommendations for post-Brexit positive consumer protection

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With Brexit finally approaching, the questions surrounding the legal uncertainty that will most likely follow the UK's departure from ...
Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Volkswagen hit by a multi-million fine from the Polish consumer protection authority

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Last September we informed our readers about an interesting report from BEUC summarizing the developments in law enforcement following the...
Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Ex officio unfairness assessment limited to contractual clauses connected to the dispute – Opinion of AG Tanchev in Case C‑511/17 Unicredit Bank Hungary

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On the 19 th of December 2019, AG Tanchev delivered an Opinion on Case C-511/17 (found here ), which deals with the scope of the obligati...
Sunday, 19 January 2020

Ex officio control in European order-for-payment procedure

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A case we have not reported yet on this blog but is certainly of interest in the light of several other cases on (national) expedited debt c...
Friday, 10 January 2020

No inertia selling in non-individually requested energy contracts - EVN Bulgaria Toplofikatsia and Toplofikatsia Sofia (joined cases C‑708/17 and C‑725/17)

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Facts Joined Cases C‑708/17 and C‑725/17 (delivered on the 5 th  of December 2019 and found  here ) deal with owners of apartments in a...
Friday, 3 January 2020

Symposium 'Consumer and Data Privacy: the digital revolution of legal, social and economic interaction'

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Happy 2020 to all our readers! After (I hope) a relaxing Christmas break for most of us, it is time to look forward to consumer events/news...
Friday, 20 December 2019

Airbnb scores a victory before the Court of Justice

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Earlier today the Court of Justice delivered a judgment in case C-390/18 Airbnb Irelend . The ruling largely follows the earlier opinion o...
Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Cofidis II: on ex officio and limitation periods - Opinion AG Kokott

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Seventeen years ago, the CJEU gave judgment in  Cofidis , one of the first and well-known cases on the ex officio application of EU consumer...
Thursday, 14 November 2019

How to claim from air carriers when flight included in a package travel contract - AG Saugmandsgaard Øe in Primera Air Scandinavia (C-215/18)

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Last Thursday AG Saugmandsgaard Øe issued an opinion in the Primera Air Scandinavia case ( C-215/18 - English text is not available), inte...
Wednesday, 13 November 2019

CJEU in Kanyeba: "contract of transport" and the scope of Directive 93/13

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Dear readers, last week the Court of Justice rendered a decision of some consequence in the field of unfair terms - which was to an e...