Anonymous
8/1/2025, 7:36:15 PM
No.106106415
>>106103293
You've got about three months of time before all the signatures have been checked, and then it's a total of 6 months before initial hearings start, iirc.
That said - the EU won't have to pass any new laws for this, because it's actually all already covered by existing legislative packages. The only things needed are stronger enforcement and better consumer awareness. So basically; you'll get a huge awareness campaign and the authorities are going to ramp up enforcement. (Which, actually, they recently already have begun to do.)
The actual fun thing? It's all based on clarification of the interpretation of the existing law as it already is, and has been since 2005 when the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD) came into being next to the Unfair Contract Terms Directive (UCTD) of '93. So this *will* infact apply retroactively by a good 20 years; and the best the industry can hope for is the authorities will go easy on the fines given the age of the crime.
You've got about three months of time before all the signatures have been checked, and then it's a total of 6 months before initial hearings start, iirc.
That said - the EU won't have to pass any new laws for this, because it's actually all already covered by existing legislative packages. The only things needed are stronger enforcement and better consumer awareness. So basically; you'll get a huge awareness campaign and the authorities are going to ramp up enforcement. (Which, actually, they recently already have begun to do.)
The actual fun thing? It's all based on clarification of the interpretation of the existing law as it already is, and has been since 2005 when the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD) came into being next to the Unfair Contract Terms Directive (UCTD) of '93. So this *will* infact apply retroactively by a good 20 years; and the best the industry can hope for is the authorities will go easy on the fines given the age of the crime.