The price to pay for pick-a-pack dependency : consumer policy and law between internal market and digital-green economy

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dc.contributor.authorMICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-02T13:28:36Z
dc.date.available2025-06-02T13:28:36Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 13 January 2025
dc.description.abstractIn Western democracies, consumer law arose as consumer protection law to protect the weaker parties against manufacturers’ market power, which was disconnected from the parallel rise of environmental protection and environmental law. The consumption society of the 1960s and 1970s, a widespread political conviction in Western democracies, called for regulatory intervention. The beginning decline of welfare state thinking in the late 1970s in Europe and the US allowed the EU to step in to instrumentalize consumer policy and law for legitimating the completion of the Internal Market, hammered down in the 1985 Single European Act. Connecting consumer policy and law to market-building policy enabled the EU to develop a seemingly consistent body of consumer law over the last four decades, setting standards that infuenced consumer law worldwide. This is common knowledge. Today, the dark side of EU consumer law and policy dependency from the perspective of market-building purposes can be observed. The dramatic change from the industrial to the digital economy and society led to the rise of a new body of law—EU Digital Policy Legislation, which is about to overrule and undermine the EU consumer law acquis. The process is further enhanced through the politically promoted greening of the economy and society, which puts the tension between consumer law and policy and environmental law and policy into the limelight. The question is what remains for and of consumer law and polity in a digital and green economy and society.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Springer Transformative Agreement (2020-2024). Agreement extended and set to expire on 30 June 2025.
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dc.identifier.citationJournal of consumer policy, 2025, OnlineFirst
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10603-025-09589-y
dc.identifier.issn0168-7034
dc.identifier.issn1573-0700
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/92787
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/81024:185205604
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of consumer policy
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectEuropean union
dc.subjectConsumer policy
dc.subjectConsumer law
dc.subjectDigital economy
dc.subjectGreen economy
dc.titleThe price to pay for pick-a-pack dependency : consumer policy and law between internal market and digital-green economy
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