Services and the EU citizen / edited by Frank S Benyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benyon, Frank S., author, editor of compilation.

Series:

Modern studies in European law ; v. 38.

Modern studies in European law ; v. 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumer protection--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Consumer protection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Services and the European Union citizen

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The importance of services in the EU economy has increased exponentially in the last decades as have the number and scope of EU rules, both those liberalising the provision of services and those protecting their recipients or consumers - the passengers, patients, viewers and bank depositors. However, these consumers, in their capacity as citizens, are increasingly disillusioned with the EU and its institutions. This book, written by practitioners, academics and advocates before the European Court, reflects on these developments, examining rules in numerous service sectors, from the capping of roaming call charges upheld in the Vodafone decision, through health care, to the requirement for air carriers to care for and compensate passengers approved in the generous Sturgeon judgment. The Court's positive approach may have been guided by a desire to consolidate the notion of EU citizenship, a status introduced, but without clear content, at Maastricht. The book therefore considers whether these uniform, EU-wide, consumer rights may not form an important component of such European citizenship. The Commission's proposal to make 2013 European Year of Citizens seems to favour such a view

Contents:

The development of the air transport policy of the European Union from the point of view of the consumer : from the creation of the internal market to the regulation of consumer rights proper

Mikko Huttunen

Travel and tourism

Jens Karsten

Electronic communications and the EU consumer

Albert Nijenhaus

Broadcasting and the EU consumer

Frank Benyon

The case law of the European Court of Justice on the mobility of patients : an assessment

Julio Baquero-Cruz

Limits to rights to health care and the extent of member states' discretion to decide the parameters of their public health policies

Roberto Cisotta

Services and the EU consumer : or the EU citizen?

Frank Benyon.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474200004

1474200001

9781782250968

1782250964

9781782250951

1782250956

OCLC:

856625774