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Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, Chapter 1, Article 2, (d) Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, Chapter 2, Article 5

The work focuses on the scope of unfair commercial practices and their relation with antitrust rules. In this perspective it delves into the definitions of unfair commercial practice and average consumer.



In the second part of the work the author describes the recent evolution of consumer protection in the Italian Competition Authority's decisions, distinguishing between two different phases on the basis of the recent financial crisis.