The chapter in the monograph analyses the legal protection of consumers in Slovenia, which in view of the fact that the European Union regulates important parts of consumer law, reflects the content of the European directives. The author analyses their integration into the Slovenian legislation and highlights the weaknesses of both the implementation and the practical enforcement of consumer legislation in our country.
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The Brussels I Regulation protects the consumer, who is regarded as economically weaker and less experienced in legal matters than the other party to the contract, by rules of jurisdiction more favourable to his interests than the general rules of jurisdiction. The special jurisdictional protective regime, however, does not extend to all types of consumer contracts. In addition to contracts for sale on instalment credit terms or combined with a consumer credit, it applies only in cases where the trader pursues commercial or professional activities in the state of the consumer´s domicile or directs such activities to that state by any means and the contract falls within the scope of such activities. This requirement gives rise to the question whether (and if, to what extent and under what conditions) it can be established that the trader who is (either directly or through intermediaries) present on the Internet ˝directs commercial or professional activities˝ to the country of the consumer´s domicile.
COBISS.SI-ID: 13739601
Online gambling is the fastest growing service in the EU. With the development of new technologies, especially the Internet, gambling has acquired a huge market, so that today online gambling is accessible to ordinary consumers of all segments of the population. With the availability, or better yet intrusion, of gambling into the homes of consumers, online gambling has been characterized as normal, acceptable and morally uncontested. However, gambling is not only fun, but also a source of various risks, for example addiction, fraud, money laundering, etc. It is these very risks of (online) gambling that cause a need for strict legal regulation of gambling in order to protect the consumers of such services as a particularly weak party. The article presents legal regimes of online gambling in the EU Member States through the prism of the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the principles of the internal market with the application to the Slovenian regulation of online gaming, with a focus on issues arising from the implementation of the national legislation relating to the Internet.
COBISS.SI-ID: 13742417