Credit: MPC
On Friday 13 December 2019, Luxembourg's Ministry of Consumer Protection, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, organised an international seminar on strengthening consumer law.
In Luxembourg, the Ministry of Consumer Protection is already the competent authority within the framework of the regulation on cooperation between authorities in matters of consumer law. The ministry carries out this task by both drawing up laws and regulations and monitoring their application.
In order to assess the Luxembourg system and highlight possibilities for improvement, the Ministry of Consumer Protection has commissioned the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law to carry out a comparative study of the enforcement of consumer protection in different European countries.
In this context, some 40 experts gathered in Senningen in Luxembourg on Friday to take stock of national developments and discuss the challenges and the possibilities of cross-border cooperation in the area of consumer protection.
The exchange focussed, among other things, on the national enforcement of class action and the possibilities of collaboration in the event of cross-border offences. During a round table, participants identified the similarities and differences present in the different countries. Several avenues have been identified which will feed into the reflections to be carried out in the context of the transposition of the so-called "modernisation of consumer rights" directive.
The results of the study and possibilities for improvement will be presented during the first half of 2020.
