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About EU Law

Lexis+® EU Law is an online practical guidance product for contentious and non-contentious lawyers providing advice to and supporting businesses and organisations that operate across the EU.

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This topic contains information to help lawyers get up to speed with EU law and concepts, so they're confident about the subject, and can appropriately frame their advice.

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A broad range of trackers to stay on top of key legislation, consultations and cases across several topics including commercial, environment, energy, financial services and TMT.

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The EU Law module also includes Lexology Getting The Deal Through. Proprietary jurisdictional guides are available for the EEA Member States, giving lawyers an overview of applicable laws at national level.

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Lexis+® EU Law is an online practical guidance product for contentious and non-contentious lawyers giving advice to (and supporting) businesses and organisations operating across the EU.

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New Deal for Consumers

On 11 April 2018, the European Commission adopted the New Deal for Consumers (see the New Deal for Consumers Communication). The New Deal for Consumers initiative aimed at strengthening EU consumer law enforcement in light of a growing risk of EU-wide infringements and at modernising EU consumer protection rules in view of market developments. In 2017, the European Commission evaluated existing consumer rules and found out that the EU consumer legislation were not applied and enforced effectively across the EU. Therefore, the European Commission decided to publish an Impact Assessment and hold a consultation. Based on its findings, and as part of the New Deal for Consumers package, two directives were adopted: • Directive (EU) 2019/2161 on better enforcement and modernisation of EU consumer protection, also known as the EU Omnibus Directive • Directive (EU) 2020/1828 on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers and repealing Directive 2009/22/EC, also known as the Collective Redress Directive These two directives amend key EU consumer protection legislation. The main amendments include more transparency for consumers when buying online, effective penalties and clear rules to tackle the issue of dual quality of products in the EU. For more information on the New Deal for Consumers, see the European Commission website.

Recommendations

Article 288 TFEU on legal acts, allows EU institutions to adopt recommendations. Recommendations are non-binding instruments which do not have any legal force but are merely persuasive. They simply allow the EU institutions to make their views known and to suggest a line of action without imposing any legal obligation on those to whom they are addressed. However, the Court of Justice has been known to invoke Recommendations to interpret EU law.

Safety Gate

Safety Gate is the EU Rapid Information System for non-food products (formerly known as RAPEX). It does not cover pharmaceuticals and medical devices which are covered by other specific alert systems. Safety Gate ensures that information about dangerous products withdrawn from the market and/or recalled from consumers anywhere in Europe is quickly circulated between Member States and the Commission, so that appropriate action can be taken everywhere in the EU. 31 countries participate in the system, including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. See the Safety Gate website.

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