Services Standards: Defining the Core Consumer Elements ... - ANEC

Hans-W. Micklitz
Lando-Commission by European academic researchers 152 . Such a link to the
European Commission is missing in the European Centre on Tort and
Insurance Law 153 , which remains a purely academic exercise without political
ties. In theory this group could provide the ground to close the gap which results
from the missing EC rules on the liability for the safety of services. The table
attempts to classify the different settings of cooperation and their impact on the
different types of services.
Consumer
contract law on
services
Transport
Cooperation,
Committees,
Networks
Academic
research
groups and
Standards
Bodies
Business
organisations
Consumer
organisations
Cooperation of
national
enforcement
agencies
(Regulation
2006/2004) 154 Acquis group 155
and Study
group 156 UNICE 157 BEUC 158
International
Consumer
Protection
Enforcement
Network
(ICPEN) 159 ;
Consumer Law
Enforcement
Forum
(CLEF) 160
European CEN/CENELEC
Aviation
Agency 161
European
Railway
Agency 162
Envisaged
cooperation
Safety
of
enforcement
bodies under
draft Regulation
COM (2004)
143 163 .
International Air BEUC 166
Transport
Association
(IATA) 164 ;
Community of
European
Railways and
Instruction
Companies
(CER) 165
152 See for further details, Micklitz, GPR 2007, 2.
153 www.ectil.org.
154 OJ L 364, 9.12.2004, 1.
155 www.acquis-group.org.
156 www.sgecc.net/overview.
157 UNICE stands for Union of Industrial and Employers’ Confederations of Europe,
www.unice.org.
158 www.beuc.eu.
159 www.icpen.org.
160 www.clef.org.
161 http://www.easa.eu.int/home/agenmeas_en.html; see Articles 13, 15, 45, 46 of Regulation
1592/2002.
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