From rule export to institution building : consumer law at the EU's doorsteps

Abstract

Some of the contributions of this special issue were first presented at a workshop during the thirteenth Mediterranean Research Meeting organized by the EUI's Robert Schuman Centre in March 2012. The workshop examined the up-take of consumer protection and competition law rules in the nations of the Mediterranean Region and the interaction of such transplanted rules with existing private law regimes in those jurisdictions (a topic which we investigate in the EU context in an ERC funded project on European Regulatory Private Law). Two further contributions focus on jurisdictions from Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary and Poland) and provide an interesting counter-point to the experiences of the aspirant nations, given that Hungary and Poland have now been EU Member States for almost a decade.