As of June 13th, 2014 the new rules for consumer protection – laid down in EU-Directive 2011/83/EU – will be implemented in the German Civil Code (BGB) and the Introductory Act to the Civil Code. These new rules mainly effect the so called long-distance transactions. This term refers especially to online-purchase, but also to telemarketing, catalogue selling and other kinds of businesses, where contracts are…
The data retention directive and the ECJ
In its ruling of today (08.04.2014 – file ref.: C-293/12 and C-594/12) the European Court of Justice found that the Data Retention Directive is not consistent with EU law. The European Court of Justice ruled in favour of a lawsuit of an Irish civil rights defence organization and of various Austrian citizens as well as of the Carinthia government. They had pleaded that storing data…