<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Consumer protection is a dominant policy of the EU. Despite this fact, the article 169 of the Treaty on Functioning of the European Union does not enable to adopt the binding legal laws on consumer protection per se. The binding legal laws could be adopted only within the context of other politics and activities on the internal market of the EU. The paper addresses the consumer policy and its status in the EU law by the historical development and legal analysis of the article 169 of the Treaty, secondary law development of consumer protection, jurisprudence, and judicature of the Court of the Justice of the EU.</p></abstract>

Consumer protection is a dominant policy of the EU. Despite this fact, the article 169 of the Treaty on Functioning of the European Union does not enable to adopt the binding legal laws on consumer protection per se. The binding legal laws could be adopted only within the context of other politics and activities on the internal market of the EU. The paper addresses the consumer policy and its status in the EU law by the historical development and legal analysis of the article 169 of the Treaty, secondary law development of consumer protection, jurisprudence, and judicature of the Court of the Justice of the EU.

The Consumer Policy in the Eu Law / Spotrebiteľská Politika V Práve Eú

Pan-European University Bratislava, Slovakia

EU agrarian Law

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Consumer protection is a dominant policy of the EU. Despite this fact, the article 169 of the Treaty on Functioning of the European Union does not enable to...

The Consumer Policy in the Eu Law / Spotrebiteľská Politika V Práve Eú

Published Online: Jul 14, 2016

Page range: 21 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eual-2016-0003

Keywords
consumer, consumer protection, consumer policy, article 169 TFEU

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Consumer Policy in the Eu Law / Spotrebiteľská Politika V Práve Eú

Published Online: Jul 14, 2016

Page range: 21 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eual-2016-0003

Keywordsconsumer, consumer protection, consumer policy, article 169 TFEU

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
consumer, consumer protection, consumer policy, article 169 TFEU