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The Use of Unfair Contractual Terms as an Unfair Commercial Practice

European Review of Contract Law, 2011
Abstract 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

2007
Directive 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, 2012
In 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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Unfair Commercial Practices Directive: remedying economic torts?

2017
The aim of the UCPD is to harmonise the laws on unfair commercial practices and with it bring adequate remedies for consumers victim of such practices. The text provided for maximum harmonisation, yet, the implementation raised considerable difficulty across Europe over the manner in which to transpose the text.
Christine Riefa, Séverine Saintier
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Unfair commercial practices and European private law

2010
Two distinct areas of law? Unfair commercial practices and private law seem to be two distinct areas, clearly separated by their different functions. Commercial practices law regulates the correct behaviour of companies in the market in order to ensure fair competition, whereas private law deals with contractual and non-contractual obligations ...
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Unfair Competition or Consumer Protection? The Commission’s Unfair Commercial Practices Proposal 2003

Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 2004
On 18 June 2003 the Commission presented its Proposal for a Directive concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the Internal Market (the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive). The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive Proposal is based upon the Green Paper on European Union Consumer Protection of 2001 and the reactions to this ...
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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 ...
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Unfair commercial practices/some policy issues

Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 2008
The Regulation of Unfair Commercial Practices under EC Directive 2005 ...
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Unfair Commercial Practices

2021
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Algorithmic Marketing and EU Law on Unfair Commercial Practices

Law, Governance and Technology Series, 2022
Federico Galli
exaly