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Unfair commercial practices against consumers and children in particular
Chodorová, Eliška ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Josková, Lucie (referee)
1 Unfair commercial practices against consumers and children in particular Abstract The diploma thesis deals with unfair commercial practices against consumers and children in particular. The aim of this thesis is to present the legal framework for the protection of children, as a particularly vulnerable group of consumers, against unfair commercial practices, and to analyse whether they receive effective protection against such practices, especially at a national level. The main methods used in this diploma thesis were the research of legal literature, legal regulations and case law of Czech and foreign courts. On the basis of the acquired information, using interpretative methods, especially linguistic, logical, and systematic, the main and partial conclusions were subsequently generalised. The diploma thesis is divided into an introduction, a conclusion and five main chapters, which are further divided into subchapters. The first chapter defines the key terms with a focus on children as a group of particularly vulnerable consumers. The second chapter is devoted to a general definition of unfair commercial practices by describing the so-called three-stage test of unfairness. The third chapter focuses on the aggressive commercial practice of solicitation of children to buy advertised products. The main...
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Community law against unfair competition
Nathanielová, Nicole ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Černá, Stanislava (referee)
Resumé Community Law Against Unfair Competition The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the European legislation on unfair competition, its application by Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter referred to as "CJ EU") and its implementation into Czech law. The thesis is composed of six chapters. Chapter One is dedicated to the general explanation and description of the unfair competition and its subjects. Chapter Two examines the background and evolution of the harmonization process on unfair competition on European level and summarizes present applicable directives. It also provides a brief note on respective Czech regulation in which these European directives were implemented. Chapter Three is dedicated to the subject of misleading advertising as defined by the Directive 2006/114/EC. The first part of this chapter provides a description of misleading advertising, second part illustrates the approach of CJ EU in its decisions. Third part is concerned with the Czech regulation of misleading advertising while it can be concluded that Czech regulation is sufficient according to required European standard without further need of implementation. Chapter Four is concerned with the comparative advertising and is subdivided into three main parts. Its first part contains a summary of conditions under...
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European law against unfair competition
Kaštánková, Jitka ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Čech, Petr (referee)
European Law Against Unfair Competition Abstract The diploma thesis deals with the "European law against unfair competition" and the emphasis is placed on providing understandable and comprehensive summary of European law represented by two leading directives of the European Union. The first one is called Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and it focuses on relations between businesses and customers, while the second one, called Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive, concentrates on business to business relations. Moreover, the realm of unfair competition is richly complemented by the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which dedicates many of its rulings to this problematic due to its indispensable significance. The content of diploma thesis is divided into several chapters. The chapter following the Introduction gives brief definitions of the terms typical for this branch of law, for example competition or average consumer. The third chapter takes into account historical development of unfair competition at European union level and its direct impact to Czech legislation. For this reason, the fourth chapter includes a short discourse about unfair competition from the point of view of the latest Czech Civil Code. Questions relating to consumers and protection of their...
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Public regulation of business practices
Ptáčková, Marta ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Josková, Lucie (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to examine the highly topical subject of regulation surrounding commercial practices. This examination is divided into four chapters. The first chapter looks at the notion of commercial practices by considering both the linguistic and legal definition of the term, and the importance of the regulation is proved. The second chapter deals with the question of division of law into its public and private counterparts. The discussion of the consequences of this division are crucial for a better analysis of the actual implementation of the EU Directive 2005/29/CE on unfair commercial practices. In the third chapter, the scope of application of this Directive is analysed and the main principles of regulation are described. The final section focuses on the Czech law on unfair commercial practices. In this segment, the text of the provisions of the Czech Code of Consumer Protection is compared to the Directive, and the system of legal redress and sanctions in the Code of Consumer Protection is critically analysed. The legal regulation of "promotional events", during which the ban of unfair commercial practices is often breached, is placed under scrutiny. The Directive was also implemented into the Code of Regulation of Advertisement. One subchapter of the fourth chapter is therefore...
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European law against unfair competition
Hobzová, Anna ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (referee)
European law against unfair competition This diploma thesis deals with the regulation of European law against unfair competition in the Directive on unfair commercial practices as well as in the Directive concerning misleading and comparative advertising. The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive explanation of the areas of the law against unfair competition regulated by these directives with regard to relevant jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union, another objective is to evaluate the success of transposition of this regulation into czech national law. After the introductary part, the thesis is diveded into six chapters. The first chapter briefly defines the status of the law against unfair competition in the legal system, interprets the basic terms and describes the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The second chapter is dedicated to the evolution of the law against unfair competition at the level of European Union. The third chapter is dedicated to misleading advertising and its regulation by the Directive concerning misleading and comparative advertising, the fourth chapter is dedicated to comparative advertising regulated by the same directive. The fifth chapter deals with unfair commercial practices in business to consumer relations regulated...
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Consumer protection options for one-sided contracting in the financial sector
Bažant, David ; Liška, Petr (referee)
Consumer protection options for one-sided contracting in the financial sector Abstract This thesis analyses the problems between consumers and business professionals in the financial sector. The author has chosen this topic because it seriously impacts everyone who intends to sign a contract for financial services. The significant imbalance between the contracting parties brings a risk that the stronger and more informed party will abuse its position to gain a disproportionate advantage. A legal system tries to redress this imbalance through the legal institutes for consumer protection. The law maker seeks to prevent the undesirable events that have occurred in the past and continue to occur by interfering with private law relations because of the public interest in consumer protection. The aim of the thesis is to provide an overview of the available options of consumer protection and to evaluate legal institutes that are the most effective for consumers. The thesis is primarily based on the analysis of the regulations and l legal publications, conceptual documents prepared by the European Union bureaucracy. Furthermore, the analysis presented here, evaluates the implementation and adoption of the European directives and the approach of the courts in selected Member States in the review of unfair terms....
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Private and Public Law Aspects of Doorstep Selling
Veverková, Svatava ; Frinta, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with private and public law aspects which are specific of doorstep selling. The main goal of the thesis is a complex analysis of these aspects, with emphasis put on the issue of consumer protection. The thesis further examines drawbacks of the Czech legislation de lege lata on the theoretical level as well as in applicational practice and confronts these drawbacks with de lege ferenda proposals.
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Unfair competition and unfair business practices in online environment of social networks
Jiraský, Vojtěch ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Tomášek, Petr (referee)
Unfair Competition and Unfair Commercial Practices in the Online Environment of Social Networks Abstract (ENG) The aim of this master's thesis is to analyse applicable law relating to the phenomenon of surreptitious advertising occurring in the posts published by influencers on social networks, examined in the scope of Czech law against unfair competition and unfair commercial practices. The author also aims to describe the particulars of the proper indication of advertising nature of such posts. The introductory part of this thesis covers general legal provisions on unfair competition and unfair commercial practices (with regard to the European law influence) and legal regulation of social networks. Analysed in detail are the general clause of unfair competition, denominate (special) and innominate (judicial) merits of the cases of unfair competition and the means of protections against unfair competition. Unfair commercial practices are characterised by examination of the general clause, small general clauses and the blacklist of unfair commercial practices. Social networks are introduced generally as information society services and audiovisual media services, and then afterwards three selected social networks - Facebook, Instagram and YouTube - are broadly characterised; the relationship between the...
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Unfair commercial practices used by the Czech retailers
VÍTKOVÁ, Karolína
This bachelor thesis is focused on unfair commercial practices and consumer protection. First of all it explains basic concepts such as commerce, retail, wholesale, businessman or consumer and next it devotes to unfair commercial practices. It contains devision to a misleading and agressive commercial practices and their difference. This work also shows the institutions and various organizations that can be contacted by consumers in case of an unfair commercial practice. For the consumers it is very important to know their rights about a purchase. This work is based on Act No. 634/1992 Coll., Consumer Protection Act and Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices, where all information concerning consumer rights and obligations of sellers can be found. The situation is detected by using questionnaire and a controlled in-depth interview with director of a control from the Czech Trade Inspection Authority. The purpose of the thesis is to evaluate these unfair commercial practices used by the Czech retailers. The aim is to determine the extent and potential impact on customers and how the Czech Trade Inspection Authority solves these situations.
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Unfair commercial practices
Alvaradová, Karolína ; Zeman, Jiří (advisor) ; Filipová, Alena (referee)
The thesis consists of a theoretical and a practical part. The subject of the theoretical part is a definition of unfair commercial practices with its related topics. The first chapter concerns the relationship of consumer protection and unfair commercial practices. The second chapter is a theoretical interpretation of the issue of unfair commercial practices. The aim of the practical part is through a survey find out how a consumer sees the issue of unfair commercial practices, how its perception differs from the definition in the law and whether he feels in this area sufficiently protected. The investigation also has the purpose of determining whether consumers know their rights in this area and whether they know who to contact in case of doubt.
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