This paper reviews principal coherence of EU Consumer law and environmental protection as demonstrated through analysis Sales Directive. After dichotomy between consumer protection, primary law’s obligation to coordinate these areas is assessed, rules directive which reflect (or conversely – neglect) goal are analysed. It later argued that basically ignores Union’s quest towards sustainability....

This article considers how consumer protection law and policy should address the interests of particularly vulnerable financial consumers. Specifically, the article proposes a taxonomy of vulnerability which helps to identify (a) what makes consumers particularly vulnerable, and (b) how consumer protection law and policy can respond to these causes in a way that provides such consumers with app...

The ultimate objective of EC competition rules is arguably the enhancement of ‘consumer welfare’. In EC competition law, however, ‘consumer’ merely means ‘customer’. Not being limited to final consumers, the concept also encompasses intermediate customers. Moreover, according to the EC Commission, under Article 82EC, harm to intermediate customers is generally presumed to create harm to consume...