Welcome to the EU Consumer Law Acquis Database

The Database presented here is an output of a research project called "EC Consumer Law Compendium", which is being conducted by an international research group on behalf of the European Commission. It provides access information on eight consumer law directives, their transposition into the laws of 27 EU Member States, including case-law, bibliography and a comparative study.

The Database covers eight directives, namely:

• the Doorstep Selling Directive 85/577
• the Package Travel Directive 90/314
• the Unfair Contract Terms Directive 93/13
• the Timeshare Directive 94/47
• the Distance Selling Directive 97/7
• the Price Indication Directive 98/6
• the Injunctions Directive 98/27
• and the Consumer Sales Directive 99/44.

In January 2008 a follow up project called "Update of the EU Consumer Law Acquis Database" started to keep the database up-to-date. A first update is made in April 2008 and provides updated information on the transposition of the eight consumer law directives into the law of Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta and Portugal. Further information on the transposition in even more EU Member States (especially Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) is currently in preparation and will be uploaded soon.

We have taken all reasonable care to process the enormous bulk of material in more than 20 languages, but despite all diligence, the complexity of the exercise most certainly will have led to some inaccuracies. Therefore we are most grateful for any comment which helps to improve the Database, also with regard to its user-friendliness. Such comments may be sent to

Prof. Dr. Hans Schulte-Nölke, University of Bielefeld/Germany

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The EU materials and the annotations made by the contributors to this Database are also provided in these three languages (or - as translation works are still pending - will soon be provided in all of these languages)..

Masthead and Site Info

Database version: April 2008