ZAŠTITA POTROŠAČA PREMA DIREKTIVI O REPREZENTATIVNIM TUŽBAMA

Abstract

The Directive (2020/1828) on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers was adopted at the end of 2020. The deadline for implementing it in national law is June 2023. The Directive aims to harmonize collective consumer protection and improve it. The importance of this Directive for national law is that it requires harmonization of domestic law with EU law. This could significantly change the system of collective protection in domestic law. The implementation of this Directive could require broader harmonization of legislation related to representative action. This paper examines the key components of the Directive. The subject of a special analysis will be the rules that introduced significant innovations in the European system of collective consumer protection. The analysis in this paper aims to identify potential questions arising from the Directive's implementation in domestic law and ways to solve them.