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Towards a better understanding of unfair commercial practices
International Journal of Law and Management, 2009PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of unfair commercial practices in advertising and marketing law.Design/methodology/approachThe differences addressed in the paper relate to the role or tasks of consumer law in regulating the marketplace.FindingsA comparison of the UK, German and Nordic approaches reveal interesting differences
Geraint Howells
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European Law on Unfair Commercial Practices and Contract Law
, 2016 The book examines the ambiguous relationship between the European law on unfair commercial practices and contract law. In particular, the manuscript demonstrates that the Directive 2005/29/EC on unfair commercial practices (UCPD) has had a major impact on contract law, despite the declaration concerning the formal independence between the two branches ...
Durovic, Mateja,
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Unfair Commercial Practices and Italian Private Law
, 2015 This contribution contains a deep and critical analysis of the impact of the introduction of the implementing provisions of directive 2005/29/EC on unfair commercial practices in business-to-consumer relations on italian private law, with specific regard to tort law, law of contract and obligations and law on unfair competition.
DE CRISTOFARO, Giovanni
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The Use of Unfair Contractual Terms as an Unfair Commercial Practice
European Review of Contract Law, 2011Abstract The purpose of the present article is to propose a coordination between the provisions of directive 93/13/EEC (the Unfair Terms Directive, ‘UTD’) and those of the ‘framework’ directive 2005/29/EC (the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive ‘UCPD’), and in particular to assess whether the ‘use of unfair terms’ as meant by the UTD entails and ...
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The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive
2015The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive was adopted in 2005 and fully harmonises unfair commercial practices law in Europe. It aims to achieve a high level of consumer protection, to smoothen the functioning of the internal market and to increase competition in the market as such.
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Fair's fair? - The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive
Strategic Direction, 2008exaly +2 more sources
The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive
2007Directive 2005/29/EC concerning Unfair Business-to-Consumer Commercial Practices in the Internal Market was adopted on May 11, 2005. This contribution sets out the main contents of the Directive in brief, and then analyses the problem of the partial harmonisation of competition law, the extensive list of “per-se prohibitions” in the Annex to the ...
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Unfair Commercial Practices: Regulation at Risk
European Business Law Review, 2012In the UK the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations came into force on 26 May 2008. They implemented the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, introducing a general duty on traders not to trade unfairly with their consumers. This article will seek to show that they have been working well, but that their continued effectiveness has ...
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