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  1. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the regions, Consumer Policy Strategy 2002–2006, COM(2002) 208 final, OJ C 137, 8.06.2002, p. 2; See also the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the regions, Healthier, safer, more confident cirizens: a health and Consumer Protection Strategy, COM(2005) 115 final, 6.04.2005, p. 2, available on www.europa.eu.int.

  2. See Howells/Weatherill, Consumer Protection Law, 2nd ed. 2005, p. 119, Poillot, Droit européen de la consommation et uniformisation du droit des contrats, Reims 2004, p. 75, Forthcoming LGDJ, collection thèses, bibliothèque de droit privé.

  3. Hearing on the Green Paper on Consumer Protection 2001, 7.12.2001, The need for an action by Robert Coleman, available on www.europa.eu.int.

  4. Even though Professor Wilhelmsson courageously argued for a general remedy against the breach of the information requirement. See Wilhelmsson, ‘Private Law Remedies against the Breach of Information Requirements’ in: Informationspflichten und Vertragsschluss im Acquis communautaire, 2003, p. 245.

  5. Art. 124 Decreto legislativo 1.09.1993.

  6. See supra note.

  7. See Schulze and Schulte-Nölke, Die Schuldrechtsreform vor dem Hintergrund des Gemeinschaftsrechts, 2001.

  8. The way they emerged from the Treaties and the case law of the ECJ has already been studied and it is not necessary to remind it here. See Varii auctores, ‘Principles of Justice and the Law of the European Union’, in Paasivirta/ Rissanen (eds.), Publication of the European Commission, 1995; Poillot, op. cit., 306.

  9. See Biancarelli/Robert, ‘Le principe de transparence en droit communautaire’, in Au carrefour des droits, Mélanges en l’honneur de Louis Dubouis, 2002, p. 493.

  10. See Poillot, op. cit., 326.

  11. See Calmes, Du principe de protection de la confiance légitime en droits allemand, communautaire et français, 2001.

  12. See Weatherill/Beaumont, EU Law, Penguin Books 1999, p. 259.

  13. Micklitz, op. cit., 284.

  14. Ibid.

  15. See Wilhelmsson, ‘The Principle of Legitimate Expectation as a Basic Principle of Community Private Law’, in: Principles of Justice and the Law of the European Union, loc. cit., p. 327.

  16. Ibid.

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    Elise Poillot (Directrice adjointe de l’Institut de droit comparé Edouard Lambert)

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Poillot, E. Consumer and contract law. ERA Forum 6, 36–44 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-005-0006-4

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