From a broader policy point of view, introducing an optional regulatory tool with the aim of replacing national consumer law (itself based on EU legislation), even if only for cross‐border contracts at first puts the entire raison d’être of the consumer law acquis into question. The...

"This book analyses the founding years of consumer law and consumer policy in Europe. It combines two dimensions: the making of national consumer law and the making of European consumer law, and how both are intertwined. The chapters on Germany, Italy, the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom...

European Consumer Policy after Maastricht raises both `horizontal' and `vertical' issues of consumer policy in the European Community and associated countries. The work was prompted by three important `constitutional' events in Europe: the completion of the Internal Market on 31 December 1992,...