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European Consumer Policy after Maastricht

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Norbert Reich

    1. ZERP (Centre for European Legal Policy), Bremen, Germany

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  2. Geoffrey Woodroffe

    1. Brunel, The University of West London, London, UK

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Supranational Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Consumer Policy in the European Community: Before and After Maastricht

      • Hans-W. Micklitz, Stephen Weatherill
      Pages 3-39

    3. Subsidiarity: The Implications for Consumer Policy

      • Leigh Gibson
      Pages 41-62

    4. Consumer Protection Within the European Union

      • Børge Dahl
      Pages 63-71

    5. Institutional Consumer Representation in the European Community

      • Lothar Maier
      Pages 73-92

    6. Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way! A Practitioner’s View

      • Monique Goyens
      Pages 93-104

    7. Advertising and Commercial Communications — Towards a Coherent and Effective EC Policy

      • Bob Schmitz
      Pages 105-128

    8. Cross-Border Consumer Conflicts — A French-German Experience

      • Hans W. Micklitz
      Pages 129-152

    9. Control of Unfair Contract Terms and Social Values: EC and Nordic Approaches

      • Thomas Wilhelmsson
      Pages 153-171

    10. On the Interrelation Between Consumer and Environmental Policies in the European Community

      • Ludwig Krämer
      Pages 173-185

  3. National Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Minimum Implementation of Minimum Directives? Consumer Protection in Austria in the Context of European Integration

      • Hans Peter Lehofer
      Pages 189-208

    3. The Importance of Community Law for French Consumer Protection Legislation

      • Patricia Foucher, Anne Morin, Agnès Chambraud
      Pages 209-223

    4. The European Influence on German Consumer Law

      • Klaus Tonner
      Pages 225-236

    5. Completion of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection in Greece

      • Elisa Alexandridou
      Pages 237-248

    6. Implementation of EEC Consumer Protection Directives in Italy

      • Simonetta Cotterli, Paolo Martinello, Carlo M. Verardi
      Pages 249-268

    7. Implementation of EEC Consumer Protection Directives in Spain

      • Manuel-Angel López Sánchez
      Pages 269-285

    8. The Internal Market and Consumer Protection in Norway

      • Kjersti Graver
      Pages 287-297

    9. The Development of Portuguese Consumer Law With Special Regard to Conflict Resolution

      • Isabel Mendes Cabeçadas
      Pages 299-308
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About this book

European Consumer Policy after Maastricht raises both `horizontal' and `vertical' issues of consumer policy in the European Community and associated countries. The work was prompted by three important `constitutional' events in Europe: the completion of the Internal Market on 31 December 1992, the adoption of the Maastricht Treaty on Political Union, and the conclusion of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA).
The `horizontal' papers in Part I are concerned both with analyzing the `acquis' of consumer policy in Europe and with new directions as well as obstacles. The keynote paper by Micklitz and Weatherill gives an overall analysis of the political and legal bases of consumer policy from both the Internal Market and the Political Union perspectives. It is followed by two papers on subsidiarity by Gibson and Dahl which take up and clarify a somewhat confusing and irritating discussion in the EC. Lothar Maier is concerned with the function and role of the Consumer's Consultative Council in the EC of which he is the President; Monique Goyens with the opportunities and especially the shortcomings of consumer interest lobbying in the EC by her association, BEUC. The papers by Schmitz, Micklitz, Wilhelmsson and Krämer raise controversial and still unresolved policy and legal issues which go beyond traditional consumer policy via directives, e.g. in commercial marketing, cross-border litigation, contract law matters and conflicts between consumer and conflicts between consumer and environmental policy.
Part II is concerned with national perspectives. The individual country reports relate to the EC and EEA countries and to Switzerland. They document the diverse -- sometimes protective, sometimes disturbing -- impact of EC lawmaking on national legislation, court practice and enforcement. They demonstrate that law harmonization is a painstaking process towards the goal of creating a European legal area withcommon protective standards.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ZERP (Centre for European Legal Policy), Bremen, Germany

    Norbert Reich

  • Brunel, The University of West London, London, UK

    Geoffrey Woodroffe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: European Consumer Policy after Maastricht

  • Editors: Norbert Reich, Geoffrey Woodroffe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1484-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2770-7Published: 30 April 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4381-8Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1484-6Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 331

  • Topics: Economic Growth, Political Science, Commercial Law

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