Essays about: "Consumer Rights Directive"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Consumer Rights Directive.
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1. Shopping for a better world - whether supply chain transparency can assure clarity within the pursuit of goods untainted by intolerable practices
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : As legislators in recent years have adopted regulations demanding companies to disclose information on their supply chains, a new chapter of corporate transparency has been opened. However, what power such regulations have to initiate a change of corporate behaviour is questionable. READ MORE
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2. The Implications for Consumer Protection Law in the European Union of Behaviourally Informed Commercial Practices
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : What level of influence should market actors be allowed to exert over consumers’ transactional decisions? While persuasive marketing is inherent to free markets and therefore uncontroversial, relatively recent research in the field of behavioural economics about systemic errors in human decision-making has shown just how susceptible consumers are to the will of market actors. Within a rapidly evolving commercial environment, characterised by new technology that resembles science fiction at times, it is time to reconsider whether consumers are adequately protected. READ MORE
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3. The VAT treatment of the payments on account in distance selling in the light of Consumer Rights Directive
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrättAbstract : Payments made prior to the delivery of the goods or services are either payments on account or deposits. ECJ has interpreted both concepts and concluded that VAT treatment must differ in both cases. In the cross-border business-to-consumer distance sale transactions consumers have the right to withdraw from the agreements for no reason. READ MORE
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4. Humanizing the Digital Age: A Right to Be Forgotten Online? An EU–U.S. Comparative Study of Tomorrow's Privacy in Light of the General Data Protection Regulation and Google Spain v. AEPD
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Eftersom snabb teknisk utveckling och globalisering har förändrat sättet på vilket vi anförtror oss personuppgifter till webbplatser för sociala medier samt sökmotorer, har den Europeiska kommissionen föreslagit en ny dataskyddsförordning som kommer att förbättra skyddet för den personliga integriteteten på internet för medborgarna i EU. Då den med stor sannolikhet träder i kraft år 2016 kommer ett av de stora tilläggen från det nuvarande dataskyddsdirektivet 95/46/EC att vara den så kallade rätten att bli bortglömd. READ MORE
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5. The Consumer Rights Directive : Improved as a cross-border-only Regulation and toward a European Consumer Code influenced by the Common Frame of Reference?
University essay from IHH, RättsvetenskapAbstract : The proposal of the European Commission for a Consumer Rights Directive in 2008 marked the culmination of the review of the acquis communautaire in the area of consumer contract law within the EU, launched in 2003 with the Action Plan for European Contract Law. Even though it was not initially restricted to consumer contract law, but concerned the contract law as a whole and targeted toward achieving a more coherent regu-latory framework without making a sharp distinction between B2B and B2C transactions, the final version of the Consumer Rights Directive has the specific aim of creating a real business-to-consumer Internal Market. READ MORE
