Monday, 30 November 2020

New Digital Markets Unit in the UK - putting (some/few) platforms on notice

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Another interesting piece of news from the past few days is the UK government announcing the setting up of the Digital Markets Unit (' N...

GDPR complaints v Google: Will the (long) wait be worth it?

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The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) drew attention in the last week to the fact that when the national consumer organisations file com...
Thursday, 26 November 2020

Restoring an effective balance through court-guided negotiations? CJEU in Banca B.SA v A.A.A (C-269/19)

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 Dear readers,  if you were hoping for some inspiring CJEU news to keep your mind away from pandemics, impending festivities and other disas...
Wednesday, 18 November 2020

Professional assignees of consumer claims may rely on the UCTD - CJEU in DelayFix (C-519/19)

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The CJEU issued a judgment today in DelayFix case ( C-519/19 ), which pertained to a dispute under Polish law involving aspects of both subs...
Monday, 16 November 2020

Interpretations of PSD2 in C-287/19 DenizBank AG

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On November 11 th the CJEU delivered a judgment in  C-287/19 DenizBank AG v Verein für Konsumenteninformation  on the interpretation of   D...
Friday, 13 November 2020

Dark patterns and conditions for a valid consent to data processing - judgment of the CJEU in C‑61/19 Orange Romania

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Earlier this week, the Court of Justice delivered a judgment in case C-61/19 Orange Romania , concerned with the conditions for a valid cons...
Monday, 2 November 2020

(Non-)Existence of right of withdrawal must be unconditional – CJEU in C‑529/19

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In Case C ‑ 529/19 ( here ), the CJEU interpreted the Consumer Rights Directive, particularly the right of withdrawal and its exceptions (Ar...
Thursday, 22 October 2020

Consumers' income and mortgage loans: the CJEU in C-778/18

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Last week the CJEU delivered its judgment in C-778/18 Association francaise des usagers de banque v Ministre de l'Economie et des Fina...
Thursday, 15 October 2020

Retail Payments Strategy: faster payments for the connected world

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As mentioned in our previous post on the Digital Finance Package (see  here ) on the September 24 the EU Commission also published a renewed...
Friday, 9 October 2020

Online dating sites and the right of withdrawal - CJEU in PE Digital (C-641/19)

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Yesterday, the CJEU issued a judgment - PE Digital ( C-641/19 ) - regarding the interpretation of Articles 14(3) and 16(m) of the Consumer ...