Consumer rights and legal guarantees in the European Union under Directive 1999/44/EC

2019

In the modern world and united legislation across Europe consumer protection is becoming more influential and stronger. To everything positive there, of course, are drawbacks or so-called ‘’grey areas’’ which this research unveils. Because of certain principles set out by the European Union each country has the opportunity to create their own standards regarding guarantees and this research reveals to what extent consumer protection can go. To understand the reasoning for certain standards three countries are compared – Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. With the use of different research methods and analysis answers to raised questions are found and concluded. Analyzing existing legi…