<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper deals with collective protection of consumer rights from the European and Czech point of view. The attention is focused on the question of the concept of legal standing to bring a collective actions (i.e. locus standi) The article compares the legal regulation of legal standing to bring a collective action in the Commission Recommendation of 11 June 2013 on common principles for injunctive and compensatory collective redress mechanisms in the Member States concerning violations of rights granted under Union law (2013/396/EU), in the proposal a new Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers [COM/2018/184 final-2018/0089 (COD)] and the Czech bill for the Collective Redress Act.</p></abstract>

The paper deals with collective protection of consumer rights from the European and Czech point of view. The attention is focused on the question of the concept of legal standing to bring a collective actions (i.e. locus standi) The article compares the legal regulation of legal standing to bring a collective action in the Commission Recommendation of 11 June 2013 on common principles for injunctive and compensatory collective redress mechanisms in the Member States concerning violations of rights granted under Union law (2013/396/EU), in the proposal a new Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers [COM/2018/184 final-2018/0089 (COD)] and the Czech bill for the Collective Redress Act.

The Concept of <italic>Locus Standi</italic> in Collective Protection of Consumer Rights – the Pitfalls of Transposition of European Model into the Czech Legal Order

International and Comparative Law Review

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The paper deals with collective protection of consumer rights from the European and Czech point of view. The attention is focused on the question of the...

The Concept of Locus Standi in Collective Protection of Consumer Rights – the Pitfalls of Transposition of European Model into the Czech Legal Order

Published Online: Feb 07, 2020

Page range: 200 - 223

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/iclr-2019-0021

Keywords
protection of consumer rights, collective redress, legal standing to bring a collective action

© 2019 Klára Hamuľáková, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Concept of Locus Standi in Collective Protection of Consumer Rights – the Pitfalls of Transposition of European Model into the Czech Legal Order

Published Online: Feb 07, 2020

Page range: 200 - 223

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/iclr-2019-0021

Keywordsprotection of consumer rights, collective redress, legal standing to bring a collective action

© 2019 Klára Hamuľáková, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
protection of consumer rights, collective redress, legal standing to bring a collective action