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Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (2005/29)
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Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (2005/29) - Malta

National Law

Title	Adoption date	In force date
Commercial Code	02/10/1857	12/12/2007
Doorstep Contracts Act	04/02/1987	11/02/1987
Consumer Affairs Act	02/12/1994	23/01/1996
Malta Travel and Tourism Services Act	13/07/1999	01/09/1999
Distance Selling Regulations (378.08)	17/08/2001	04/09/2001
Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations	01/11/2001	01/11/2001
Consumer Affairs Act (Price Indication) Regulations	27/09/2002	01/10/2002
Distance Selling (Retail Financial Services) Regulations (330.07)	04/02/2005	04/02/2005
Electronic Commerce (General) Regulations, 2006	24/10/2006	24/10/2006
Injunctions for the Protection of the Interests of Consumers (Package Travel and Protection of Buyers in Contracts for Time Sharing of Immovable Property) Regulations, 2006	24/11/2006	24/11/2006

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Cases

National ID	Common Name	Directive Part	Decision type	Decision date
Qorti Ta’ L-Appell Seduta 24 ta’ April 2009. Appell Civili Numru 15/2008	link	Chapter 2, Article 5, 4.	Court decision in appeal	24/04/2009
CCT 354/09 Joseph Cassar v George Barbara	link	Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 7, 1.	Court decision, first degree	05/07/2010
CCT 29/10 Anne Marie & Eman Vella vs. International Sales Direct	link	Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 7, 1.	Court decision, first degree	04/10/2010
CCT 2/10 Kenneth Ciangura vs AR Tech Limited	link	Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 7, 1. Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 7, 4., (a)	Court decision, first degree	06/12/2010
CCT 440/09 John Caruana v Bonsons Limited	link	Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 6, 1., (a)	Administrative decision, first degree	06/12/2010
link	link	Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 7, 2. Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 7, 1. Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 6, 1., (d) Chapter 2, Article 5, 1.	Administrative decision in appeal	17/04/2013
link	link	Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 7, 2. Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 7, 1.	Administrative decision in appeal	26/02/2014

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Legal Literature

Reference	Title	Author	Publication Year
ELSA Malta Law Review, Vol. II, p 41	The contribution of EU Directives to the objective of consumer protection	AZZOPARDI, A.	2012
University of Malta, LL.D thesis	Maximum harmonization in EU consumer protection legislation: its impact on the scope of the protection afforded to consumers by national law	CUTAJAR, S.	2013
Id-Dritt, Vol. XXII	Defining the consumer in order to protect him – the continuous duel between the notion of ‘consumer’ in EU directives and in the Court of Justice’s free movement decisions	AZZOPARDI, A.	2012

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