NDLI: The Impact of EU Norms and Policies on Consumer Protection Enforcement in Serbia

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Fejős, Andrea
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Pursuant to its 2008 Stabilization and Association Agreement governing the process of EU integration, Serbia is obliged to align its consumer protection standards (including those related to enforcement) with those of the EU. This article considers the overall approach to enforcement of consumer law in Serbia, focussing in particular on the extent to which EU enforcement principles have been successfully exported to Serbia and whether the goals of EU consumer policy have been achieved. It argues that the incorporation of EU norms has brought fundamental changes to Serbian enforcement mechanisms at a formal level, such as in relation to mediation processes as well as the introduction of injunctions for the protection of collective consumer interests. In practice, however, the impact of this incorporation is quite limited. A number of factors that restrict the practical effectiveness of the mediation processes and injunctions required by EU law are explored in the article, including weak sanctions, excessive reliance on poorly resourced consumer organizations, absence of a business culture of compliance or a sophisticated and determined consumer protection enforcement culture sufficiently grounded in expertise, as well as an overarching political, legislative, and institutional instability. These factors also undermine the general aim of EU policy to achieve effective consumer protection enforcement in the Serbian context.
Starting Page	247
Ending Page	268
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01687034
Journal	Journal of Consumer Policy
Volume Number	36
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15730700
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-08-16
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Consumer law Implementation of consumer acquis Enforcement mechanisms Enforcement deficiencies Serbia Social Sciences Marketing Economic Policy Commercial Law
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics Business, Management and Accounting

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