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European Consumer Policy after Maastricht raises both `horizontal'
and `vertical' issues of consumer policy in the European Community
and associated countries. The work was prompted by three important
`constitutional' events in Europe: the completion of the Internal
Market on 31 December 1992, the adoption of the Maastricht Treaty
on Political Union, and the conclusion of the Agreement on the
European Economic Area (EEA). The `horizontal' papers in Part I are
concerned both with analyzing the `acquis' of consumer policy in
Europe and with new directions as well as obstacles. The keynote
paper by Micklitz and Weatherill gives an overall analysis of the
political and legal bases of consumer policy from both the Internal
Market and the Political Union perspectives. It is followed by two
papers on subsidiarity by Gibson and Dahl which take up and clarify
a somewhat confusing and irritating discussion in the EC. Lothar
Maier is concerned with the function and role of the Consumer's
Consultative Council in the EC of which he is the President;
Monique Goyens with the opportunities and especially the
shortcomings of consumer interest lobbying in the EC by her
association, BEUC. The papers by Schmitz, Micklitz, Wilhelmsson and
Kramer raise controversial and still unresolved policy and legal
issues which go beyond traditional consumer policy via directives,
e.g. in commercial marketing, cross-border litigation, contract law
matters and conflicts between consumer and conflicts between
consumer and environmental policy. Part II is concerned with
national perspectives. The individual country reports relate to the
EC and EEA countries and to Switzerland. They document the diverse
-- sometimes protective, sometimes disturbing -- impact of EC
lawmaking on national legislation, court practice and enforcement.
They demonstrate that law harmonization is a painstaking process
towards the goal of creating a European legal area with common
protective standards.
European Consumer Policy after Maastricht raises both `horizontal'
and `vertical' issues of consumer policy in the European Community
and associated countries. The work was prompted by three important
`constitutional' events in Europe: the completion of the Internal
Market on 31 December 1992, the adoption of the Maastricht Treaty
on Political Union, and the conclusion of the Agreement on the
European Economic Area (EEA). The `horizontal' papers in Part I are
concerned both with analyzing the `acquis' of consumer policy in
Europe and with new directions as well as obstacles. The keynote
paper by Micklitz and Weatherill gives an overall analysis of the
political and legal bases of consumer policy from both the Internal
Market and the Political Union perspectives. It is followed by two
papers on subsidiarity by Gibson and Dahl which take up and clarify
a somewhat confusing and irritating discussion in the EC. Lothar
Maier is concerned with the function and role of the Consumer's
Consultative Council in the EC of which he is the President;
Monique Goyens with the opportunities and especially the
shortcomings of consumer interest lobbying in the EC by her
association, BEUC. The papers by Schmitz, Micklitz, Wilhelmsson and
Kramer raise controversial and still unresolved policy and legal
issues which go beyond traditional consumer policy via directives,
e.g. in commercial marketing, cross-border litigation, contract law
matters and conflicts between consumer and conflicts between
consumer and environmental policy. Part II is concerned with
national perspectives. The individual country reports relate to the
EC and EEA countries and to Switzerland. They document the diverse
-- sometimes protective, sometimes disturbing -- impact of EC
lawmaking on national legislation, court practice and enforcement.
They demonstrate that law harmonization is a painstaking process
towards the goal of creating a European legal area with common
protective standards.
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