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- Published: December 4, 2018
Seminar on EU consumer rights held in cooperation with the Albanian School of Magistrates
Albania is getting closer to the European Union and therefore also towards participation in the EU internal market. In this context, the IRZ organised a seminar on EU consumer protection in partnership with the Albanian School of Magistrates. The seminar took place on 26 and 27 November 2018 and was attended by around 20 prospective judges and public prosecutors.
IRZ expert Dr. Oisín Morris, a judge at the local court of Hamburg-Wandsbek, explained that, although consumer rights played only a minor role at the beginning of European integration attempts, since the Maastricht Treaty was signed in 1992 there have been legal provisions for protecting consumer rights when purchasing goods or services from other EU countries and for guaranteeing product safety in general on the internal market.
He then went on to explain the provisions for distance and off-premises contracts and other contracts made as distance and off-premises contracts (Directive 2011/83/EU) and explained the implementation of EU provisions in German law. In conjunction with speakers from the School of Magistrates, comparisons could be drawn between Albanian and German or EU consumer legislation.
The speakers Fjoralba Caka, Ardjana Shehi and Arbena Ahmeti also presented current Albanian cases and introduced the following topics:
- Unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market (Directive 2005/29/EC),
- Alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes (Directive 2013/11/EU) and
- Online consumer dispute resolution (regulation 524/2013).