Consumer ADR in the European Union and in Portugal as a means of ensuring consumer protection

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-207
Author(s):  
Jorge Morais Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
The European Union

Nowe podejście do harmonizacji technicznej w Unii Europejskiej a swoboda przepływu towarów

2016 ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Iwona Miedzińska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Single Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Primary Method ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Free Movement Of Goods

This article is about the new approach directives and their impact on ensuring the free movement of goods in the single market. The author analysed the relevant legislation of the European Union adopted in the field of technical harmonisation: regulations and directives. The primary method of research used in this article is the legal and institutional analysis. Neofunctionalism and rational choice theory were also helpful to explain the processes of integration in this area. The analysis shows that the new approach directives affect the streamlining of procedures for the movement of goods in the single market. However, despite the simplification of procedures for the movement of goods, an adequate level of safety and consumer protection is ensured. The member states and the European Commission have effective response mechanisms when a product endangers life, health or safety of consumers.

scholarly journals Compliance of Lebanese Pickling Industry with Lebanese and International Standards

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 1559-1563
Author(s):  
Sami Tlais ◽  
Hayat Omairi ◽  
Ali Al Khatib ◽  
Hassan HajjHussein
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
New Products ◽  
International Standards ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alert System ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Rapid Alert System

In light of recent news reporting the use of banned colorants in Lebanese-made pickled turnips exported to the European Union (EU) by the Rapid Alert System of Food and Feed (RASFF), The Lebanese Consumer Protection Association tested samples of pickled turnips being sold to the public and confirmed the use of rhodamine B. Many products were pulled off the market and were replaced with new products that were supposed to be free of any banned colorants. We selected 5 different brands of pickled turnips and tested them for pH, salinity, nitrites, and colorants. We tested the salinity using two methods: evaporation and titration. The concentration of nitrites was tested by absorbency method. The presence of colorants was determined using TLC and absorbency method. We determined that the newly released pickled turnips comply with the rules and regulations adopted by the Lebanese Standards Institution (LIBNOR) and the international standards according to the Codex Alimentarius.

The competence of the European Union in the field of consumer protection after the reform of the Lisbon Treaty

2021 ◽  
pp. 204-206
Author(s):  
Saglar Sergeevna ASHTAEVA ◽  
Victoria Mikhailovna Romadikova ◽  
Nina Viktorovna TSUGLAEVA ◽  
Anastasia Radionovna KIM ◽  
Badma Alekseevich TYURBEEV
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Lisbon Treaty ◽  
The European Union

An Overview of Competition Policy Practice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Vives
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
Foreign Exchange Market ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mediterranean Countries

This chapter examines the competition policy practice in different jurisdictions, focusing on the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and a number of emerging and developing economies (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia, and southern Mediterranean countries). It begins with a discussion of the concerns of the competition authorities in the European Union and the United Kingdom about the banking sector and proceeds by considering practice in the main competition policy areas that have been active in banking: mergers, cartels and restrictive agreements, and state aid. Among other issues, it reviews the tensions between the prudential and the competition authorities, the recent cases of international cartels on Libor and foreign exchange market, and some landmark cases in the European Union. It also looks at consumer protection, with a new impulse from behavioral ideas, and the convergence in aims between consumer protection and competition policies.

The Legal Framework for Data and Consumer Protection in Europe

2009 ◽  
pp. 326-346
Author(s):  
Charles O’Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Frameworks

This chapter will discuss the legal framework for consumer and data protection in Europe. Central to this discussion will be the law of the European Union (EU) on data and consumer protection.3 Recent years have seen the creation of legal frameworks in Europe which seek to secure the protection of consumers while simultaneously facilitating economic growth in the European Union. This chapter will outline the main sources of law which protect consumers and their privacy. This chapter will outline the important provisions in these sources of law and critically analyse them. The chapter will also point up the gaps and deficiencies in the consumer and data protection legal structures.

18. Internal Policies

2021 ◽  
pp. 779-844
Author(s):  
Robert Schütze
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Internal Policy ◽  
Union Policy ◽  
Economic Choices

This chapter provides an overview of four internal Union policy areas that have come to significantly affect the lives of European citizens. It begins by introducing the Union's Economic and Monetary Policy. This policy is not only responsible for the creation of a common European currency—the euro—which has become a leading world currency; it recently provoked enormous controversy over the powers of the European Union to interfere with national economic choices. The chapter then moves to ‘Social Policy’; this is an important internal policy for a continent that prides itself on being the ‘social continent’. It also explores the Treaty title on ‘Consumer Protection’, which has had an enormous impact on national contract laws. Finally, the chapter looks at the Union's regional or cohesion policy.

E-COMMERCE AND SOME OF THE FEATURES OF CONSUMER PROTECTION RIGHTS UNDER EU LAW

Lex Russica ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 140-145
Author(s):  
M. V. Nekoteneva
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Distance Selling

The paper deals with the problems of consumer protection rights in the distance selling and service provision, e-Commerce under the law of the European Union (the main and additional requirements for the information provided at various stages of the agreement; the consequences of non-fulfillment of the information obligations by the counterparties of the consumer provided by the EU law). The provisions of the acts of primary and secondary law of the European Union affecting the regulation of consumer protection rights in the distance selling and provision of services, e-Commerce are analyzed. The responsibility of service providers acting as intermediaries in the implementation of e-Commerce is considered. The classification of prohibited types of unfair influence on the economic behavior of the consumer is provided, i.e. improper influence, unfair commercial activity (and its types), etc. The prospects of studying and adapting the experience of the European Union in the field of regulation of consumer protection in the distance selling and provision of services, e-Commerce for the Russian Federation are noted. Some features of regulation of sale of goods (services) through the Internet are highlighted, and general recommendations on improvement of the current legislation are given.

scholarly journals Consumer legal protection in the EU

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 01013
Author(s):  
Mária Dzúrová
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Major Health ◽  
Consumer Safety ◽  
The World ◽  
The Eu

Consumer protection is a very wide-ranging issue and needs to be given due attention. It concerns the safety of consumers in the environment of individual countries of the world, it concerns the consumer safety of certain groups, such as the European Union. The basic frameworks of consumer protection are set by the guidelines of world organizations - the UN, WHO, but also the European Union and individual member states. In the area of consumer protection, attention is paid to major health problems caused by unsuitable food, such as food scandals, various types of diseases - mad cow disease, swine fever, covid 19.

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