Unfair Contract Terms in Business-to-Consumer contracts in the proposed Common European Sales Law

In October 2011, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation on a Common European Sales Law which covers business-to-consumer contracts.

In this paper, BEUC sets out its concerns in relation to the provisions on unfair contract terms in consumer contracts . In order to contextualise our approach, we first provide an overview of more general consumer concerns on the Commission’s proposal and on some of the provisions of the regulation, which refers to the modus operandi of the Common European Sales Law