Consumer contracts and the 1980 Rome EC Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations
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Auteurs : Bernd Von Hoffmann [Allemagne]Source :
- Journal of Consumer Policy [ 0168-7034 ] ; 1992-12-01.
Abstract
Abstract: International consumer protection is a relatively new topic in the theory and practice of private international law. The 1980 EC Convention on international contracts which entered into force in 1991 provides for a novel and comprehensive approach to international consumer contracts. The Convention allows the parties of international contracts themselves to stipulate what national law shall be applicable to their transaction. Party autonomy in international consumer contracts means allowing one party to provide for the application of that legal system which has the lowest standard of consumer protection. The Convention meets this danger by deciding that for sales of goods and service contracts, the consumer-protecting standards of the consumer's country apply. For other types of consumer transactions (e.g., consumer credit), the Convention allows national law to establish the international scope of its consumer protection standards. The author submits that the discretion of national law to extend the international scope of its consumer protective provisions is not unlimited. It is restricted to situations in which the other party directed its marketing activity to the consumer's country and excludes situations in which the consumer acted outside his home country. Recent national statutes and case law which go beyond these limits (such as the German Gran Canaria cases) are discussed critically. The paper further suggests the inclusion into EC directives on consumer protection of specific provisions as to their international scope in order to ensure their effective and uniform application to international consumer transactions.
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