Although there are a variety of directives and regulations which fall within the field of EU consumer policy dealing with a rather diffuse range of consumer issues, it is nevertheless possible to identify certain key principles, or techniques, which are common to many of these measures....

This paper aims to demonstrate that, in fact, building a coherent national system of consumer protection in Romanian domestic market was achieved mainly due to the process of accession to the European Union, to harmonize its system with that prevailing in Europe, and especially in context of the...

In economic terms, electricity is a product that can be bought, sold or traded. Therefore, this product may give rise to a market. In the context of global economy, electric energy market had specific different features for its development, these situations being also found in the European...

Whether it is about an imbalance of economic, informational, judicial nature or at the level of the representation of interests, the cleavages which intervene within the market in the relations between producer/trader and consumer unequivocally call for the intervention in favor of the latter....

The existence of “sovereign consumer”, appealed by the adherents of free market cult, is jeopardized, within the context of economic reality, by the manifestation of some market failures. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is the argumentation of the importance of direct consumer...

The present paper presents one of the national approaches used to address consumer problems, i.e. protection model. Developed in countries like the United States of America or France, this model aims to protect consumer rights against the negative consequences of production activity.

This paper aims to highlight the evolution of e-commerce in Romania between 2008 – fourth quarter 2011. Were processed, analyzed and interpreted data on the number of electronic stores and online transaction volume in this period. Also, based on these data was made an estimate of the evolution...

The present development of the market of foods with nutrition and health claims shows some issues with regards to consumers’ understanding and perception. Many items influencing consumer preferences may affect the perception of foods with health-related benefits. In the present study, results...

The number of low quality products and counterfeited products is growing continuously. Counterfeiting becomes a global problem in the context that it covers almost all the categories of products: from soap, to clothing and even drugs, affecting equally the producers of the original products,...

Economic reality of everyday life places the consumer in an objectively unbalanced report in favor of the producer/trader, even if the first, with his needs, should be both the origin and the final point of production activity. In this context, the present paper contains an analysis of the...