Business Wire: Information Requirements have become a Key Element of Consumer Policy at the European

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c25279) has announced the addition of Information Rights and Obligations to their offering.

Information requirements have become a key element of consumer policy at the European level and are also gaining increasing importance in all other areas of private law. The law stipulates that information provided should not be misleading and also involves requirements regarding the fairness and objectivity of what has been provided. In addition to controlling the veracity of what is voluntarily offered by traders, the law increasingly requires disclosure of certain information.

This volume focuses especially on the question of how these information requirements influence the party autonomy. International contributors explore in various contexts whether the legislative policy regarding the information requirements and their relationship to party autonomy has been properly thought through.

Topics covered include:

--Autonomy and fairness: the case of public statements

--The strategy and the harmonization process within the European legal system: party autonomy and information requirements

--Evolution of party autonomy in a legal system under transformation - recent developments in Poland under special consideration of the package travel directive

--From truth in lending to responsible lending

--EC directives for self-employed commercial agents and on time-sharing - apples, oranges and the core of the information overload problem

--Information requirements in the e-commerce directive and the proposed directive on unfair commercial practices

--Contractual disclosure and remedies under the unfair contract terms directive

--Information disclosure about the quality of goods - duty or encouragement?

--Information and product liability - a game of Russian roulette?

--Duties to inform versus party autonomy: reversing the paradigm (from free consent to informed consent)? - a comparative account of French and English law

--The information requirements in the principles of European private law Long-Term Commercial Contracts: Commercial Agency, Distribution, Franchise - a model for a European civil code?

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