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Consumer law - creating harmony in Europe

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 24 2012

Earlier this year we sent you our website compliance checklist, setting out how to comply with the requirements of distance selling and e-commerce regulations

EU requires consent before cookies can be placed

  • Andrews Kurth LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 21 2011

On May 26, 2011, the 2009 amendments to the e-Privacy Directive (the “Directive”) regulating the use of internet cookies in the European Union (“EU”) went into effect

EU political update 18 - 22 July 2011

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 18 2011

On 11 July 2011, European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Michel Barnier delivered a speech at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Paris in which he detailed three challenges pertaining to the resilience of financial markets

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • June 17 2011

This is the twenty-fifth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

EU political update: 28 March - 2 April 2011

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union
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  • March 28 2011

On 24 March 2011, the European Commission published a Green Paper on online gambling in the Internal Market (COM(2011) 128) (the 'Green Paper'

New EU rules on distribution agreements

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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  • European Union
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  • August 6 2010

A new regulation that entered into force on 1 June 2010 means that large retailers must re-assess their contracts with suppliers

Delivery charges and cancelled contracts - distance traders beware!

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • July 23 2010

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently handed down another judgment regarding charges made to consumers when exercising their rights to cancel contracts made at a distance, for example on the phone or via the internet

Consumers that cancel distance contracts to be reimbursed initial delivery costs

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • May 13 2010

The ECJ has confirmed that consumers should be reimbursed for any initial delivery costs on cancellation of a distance contract

Rome I Regulation on cross-border contract liability comes into force

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • January 11 2010

The EU Rome I Regulation, which lays down rules to determine the national law applicable to contractual obligations, came into force on 17 December 2009

European Union makes progress in cleaning up airline ticketing websites

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • May 22 2009

The European Commission has said that the results of the European Union’s "health check" of airline ticket selling websites show that significant progress has been made towards bringing these websites into compliance with European consumer protection rules