title: Consumer protection under Polish private law
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Pokrzywniak, Jakub
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-28T19:12:20Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-28T19:12:20Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Pokrzywniak, Jakub. 2021. Consumer protection under Polish private law. Pravovedenie 65 (2): 236–247.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2021.207
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37000
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article discusses the provisions of Polish private law that grants protection to consumers.
  Particular attention is paid to contract law, but the impact of public law regulations for the provisions
  of civil law is also taken into consideration. The author presents a number of legal instruments
  used by Polish law in order to protect consumers in their dealings with merchants and
  analyzes the main features of consumer protection law in Poland. The influence of European
  legislation on Polish regulations is also discussed. It goes without saying that Polish consumer
  protection legislation has to be in line with EU directives. As is known, the protection of consumers
  plays an important role in EU legislation. The Polish lawmaker has the duty to implement
  European directives properly and timely into national law. Many Polish regulations regarding
  consumer protection seem to be a certain kind of translation of European directives. This is the
  simplest but probably the riskiest method of transposing EU law because it may lead to inconsistencies
  with national regulations. Although sometimes it seems to be forced by a tight timeline.
  At the same time, the general competence of the European Union for enacting consumer
  protection law as a part of civil law is lacking. This is due to the fact that the six founding Member
  States of the European Economic Union deemed law of contracts as part of the European Treaties
  to be redundant, since the legal systems of the states — founders of the Union, all based
  on Roman Law, should already provide a mutual understanding. It is obvious that the consumer
  needs protection in his/her dealings with merchants as he/she is a weaker party to the transaction.
  This weakness stems mainly from a lack of information and poor bargaining power. The
  consumer will never be a real partner in negotiations with a bank, a utility company or an airline.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 65; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: consumer
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: merchant
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: unfair contract terms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mandatory provisions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: informational duties
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: distance sales
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: private law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Consumer protection under Polish private law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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