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    • Member State: France
    • Title: Unfair Commercial Practices: History and Contents of Directive 2005/29/CE
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    • Author: M. KOEHLER DE MONTBLANC and C. HOVNANIAN
    • Reference: Journal des Sociétés, September 2010, N°79, pages 10-19
    • Publication Year: 2010
    • Keywords: full harmonisation, general discussion, general discussion on the national implementation, general scope of the UCP Directive
  • Directive Articles
    Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, Chapter 1, Article 2 Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, Chapter 1, Article 3 Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, Chapter 2, Article 5 Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, Chapter 4, Article 13
  • Headnote
    This article describes the content and scope of the UCP Directive and explains its goal of harmonization. It summarizes the distinctions between misleading commercial practices, aggressive commercial practices and unfair commercial practices.

     

    The authors also describe the implementation of the UCP Directive under French law and restate the criticisms voiced by the European authorities on its implementation. They recommend that sector actors and lawyers comply with the recent case law of the European Court of Justice applying the UCP Directive.
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