Study On Protection Of Consumer's Right To Know

Consumers' right to know is an important right of the consumers. Whether or not it can be well realized would affect the real intent of the subject. In modern society, consumption relates tightly to every body. Thus consumers' right to know can be seemed as a precondition to promote reasonable consumption. In this dissertation, the author discusses from general theories of the right to compare the different prescriptions on it in both inside and outside of China, and finally gives out several shortages that exist in the protection of consumers' right in Chinese law at present. And the author also considers seriously about the perfection of it, he wishes that all that he does would do something good to the strengthening of protection of the right.The dissertation could be divided into four parts:The first part is about general idea on the protection of consumers' right. Every kind of right has its own economic, social and ideological basis, thus a general idea on it could do something help to the research. In this part, the author discusses the concept, characteristics and natures of consumers' right firstly, in order that it can be comprehended all round and reasoningly. Then the author describes the history of the right, as well as the protection on it, which gives a historical gist on the existence and necessity of protection on the right. At the end of the first part, the author discusses some necessity to strengthen the protection from the aspect of the info-economy.In the second part the author gives out some legislative examples in foreign countries. We can discover our own shortages in the institution through learning from the foreign countries, and it can also provide some experiences and references in our improvement and perfection on related institutions. In this part, the author researches the legislative institutions on the protection of consumers' right to know in foreign countries, and he introduces roundly some pretty good institutions in some countries, such as the United States, Australia and Japan, etc. The author hopes the relatively perfect prescriptions and practices in these countries would provide some references to Chinese protection on consumers' right to know. In the third part, the author comments on Chinese legislations and practices about the protection on the right. These legislative prescriptions lay dispersedly in many laws and other statutes, which makes them unsystematically and therefore leads to many obstacles in the contents as well as in the practice. The author here enumerates and analyzes the legislative provisions in the protection of the right in China, and then he figures out the shortages in these provisions. At last, he analyzes the problems that exist in the practice.The last part is about some in-depth considerations on the perfection of the protection of consumers' right to know. The maintenance of consumers' rights and interests should not be deemed as the private things between consumers and operators, by contraries, it's really responsibilities of the whole society. Realization of the right to know could not be left solely to the consumers themselves, it rather relates to many kinds of social relationships. In this part, the author analyzes these comprehensive social relationships firstly, and then probes into the perfection on the right and the system of information disclosure accordingly. At the end of the dissertation, the author gives out some concrete suggestions on the strengthening of protections on consumers' right to know in China.