Landmark cases of EU consumer law

Table of contents

Chapter 1 The Consumer: Notion and Image Consumer Image: Linguistic, Cultural and Social Differences - Stephen Weatherill The Average Consumer's Degree of Attention in Trade Mark Cases - Andree Puttemans Consumer/Citizen Access to Information - A New Fundamental Right under the EU Charter - Norbert Reich Consumer Notion: Natural or Legal Persons and Mixed Contracts - Johan Vannerom Consumer Notion: Suretyship Fryderyk Zoll Protection of the 'Vulnerable' Consumer of Financial Services - Tom Van Dyck Chapter 2 Consumer Protection, Free Movement and Harmonisation Market Access and Proportionality - Koen Lenaerts Free Movement of Goods, Market Access and Consumer Protection - Wulf-Henning Roth Prohibitions on Doorstep Selling, Itinerant Selling and Canvassing and the Free Movement of Goods and Services - Reinhard Steennot Minimum Harmonisation and Consumer Law - Choice of Legal Basis - Piet Van Nuffel Language Requirements and Labelling - Anne Looijestijn-Clearie Damaging Coherence, Disenfranchising Consumers? Some Reflections on Faccini Dori at Twenty - Henri De Waele Protection of Consumers against Discrimination: the Test-Achats Ruling - Caroline Van Schoubroeck Discrimination and Restriction in Direct Taxes: Building Blocks of the Internal Market - Frans Vanistendael Restrictions on Exports and Consumer Protection - Laurence W. Gormley Chapter 3 Consumer Protection through Product Liability Level and Scope of Harmonisation of the Directive - Survival of National Product Liability Regimes? - Herman Cousy Defences - Geraint Howells Heads of Damage - Jean-Sebastien Borghetti Chapter 4 Consumer Protection and Unfair Commercial Practices Consumer Protection and Fair Trading Merge as Public Interest Grounds -Johan van de Gronden The Notion of Comparative Advertising - Frauke Henning-Bodewig Comparative Advertising: Price Comparisons - Gabriel Luc Ballon Comparative Advertising and Use of Trade Marks: Confusion, Imitation and Unfair Advantage - Gert Straetmans Keyword Advertising, Consumer Protection, Fair Trade and Intellectual Property - Thomas Incalza Combined Offers - Veerle Colaert and Maarten Peeters Sales Periods - Jacques Laffineur and Michel Van Huffel B2C and B2B - Consumer/Competitor Protection - Bert Keirsbilck Interpretation of Blacklisted Practices - Anne-Christine Fornage Misleading Omissions/Invitation to Purchase - Anne-Lise Sibony Chapter 5 Consumer Contract Law and Enforcement Theme I. Information Requirements and the Internet - Christian Twigg-Flesner The Effects of the Consumer's Withdrawal from the Contract - Peter Rott Right of Withdrawal - Interoperability of Directives - Marco B.M. Loos The Notion of Damage in EU Consumer Contract Law - Simon Whittaker Theme V. Unfair Contract Terms - Scope of Control of Unfair Terms (Core Terms Included or Excluded?) - Sergio Camara Lapuente Consumer Protection and Procedural Justice - Christopher Hodges Unfair Contract Terms - Revising the Content of a Term - Ewoud Hondius Unfair Contract Terms - Public Interest Litigation before European Courts - Hans Micklitz Unfair Contract Terms - Effect of Collective Proceedings - Fabrizio Cafaggi and Stephanie Law Unfair Contract Terms - Statutory Provisions, Price Increase Terms and the Role of the CJEU - Evelyne Terryn Consumer Sales - Remedies - Sophie Stijns and Sanne Jansen Consumer Sales - The Weber-Putz Case-Law: From Traditional to Modern Contract Law - Stefan Grundmann Out-of-Court Dispute Settlement - Hans De Coninck