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Candidate Countries and European Contract Law

Laying down legal framework of consumer protection in Croatia lasted longer than harmonization of other commercial rules with EC law. The first drafts and ideas on that appeared already in 1990-ies. Meantime the main legislation on market economy has been adopted, such as: Companies Act (1993), the Law on Protection of Market Competition (1995), Croatian Securities Act (1995), Commercial Act (1996) and many others, but Croatian Consumer Protection Act was laid down in 2003. By regulating the issues of consumer protection with EC law not only new rules on consumer’ s position had been introduced, but also new terms and principles of product liability that did not exist in previous European civil codifications. Introducing new and stricter forms of liability does not derogate existing rules on contractual and non-contractual liability nor special cases of liability. Consumer can choose on which legal basis he would claim for damages.

European Contract Law; consumer protection; product liability; commercial rules

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