CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Skorochod, Galina |
|---|---|
| Title | Consumer Protection in the European Union |
| Summary | The main purpose of the present master thesis is to evaluate the effectiveness of consumer protection in the sphere of distance selling and electronic commerce, to examine consumer protection problems, including those arising from improper implementation of the Distance Selling and E-Commerce Directives, and consumer right to receive information, as well as to suggest possible solutions of the problems. Firstly, the thesis discovers the nature of consumer rights as human rights and discusses the historical development of the universal consumer protection instruments and the EU consumer protection legislation. Secondly, it examines provisions of the Distance Selling and E-Commerce Directives and their amendments, concerning consumer protection, analyzes the problems of their implementation in Lithuania and the UK and proposes possible responses to these problems. Finally, the present thesis considers the problems of the administrative (governmental) implementation of consumer right to receive information when concluding contracts by the means of distance selling and e-commerce in Lithuania and presents possible solutions. |
| Supervisor | Granger, Marie-Pierre; Ph.D. |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/skorochod_galina.pdf |
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