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Legal Protection For Consumers' Right To Know

Posted on:2011-05-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y R RenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360305979884Subject:Law
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This paper intends to analyze and discuss the legal protection for consumers'right to know from perspectives of legal provisions and enforcement.The Chapterâ… introduces a general overview of consumers'right to know. At first, it analyses the concept and four characteristics of consumers'right to know. Sectionâ…¡is about the background and the basis of consumers'right to know. The gap of information power between suppliers and consumers is much deeper with the development of commercial economy and modern technology. Increasing asymmetry of information led to public authority involved in the field of consumption. Legal socialization of thought and the vigorous development of the consumer movement make consumers aware of their rights gradually. From legal perspective, the formal fairness of the traditional civil notion was challenged and tended to the material fairness. Sectionâ…¢is the introduction of foreign protection for consumers'right to know in order to provide some lessons for us.The Chapterâ…¡mainly analyses the problems in legal provisions and current situation of consumers'right to know in China. Sectionâ… discusses that the main obstacles to enjoy consumers'right to know are the defect in legal provisions especial in the Law of Consumer Rights and Interests Protection, and consumers'weak awareness of their rights. Suppliers'obligation of information is the main safeguard for consumer to enjoy right to know. However, Contract Law and economy law have not really established suppliers'compulsory obligation to disclose information. In this situation, some suppliers maximized their interest in the price of consumers'interest and market influent development. Government and consumer organization have subsidiary roles in the information disclosure, but Chinese law have not relevant provisions.The Chapterâ…¢provides relevant measures to improve law for the problem in the Chapterâ…¡.From the view of right enjoyment, law should specialize provisions of consumers'right to know and increase realization approaches and right of cancellation. In the meanwhile, consumers must improve legal sense. Sectionâ…¡is the establishment of suppliers'compulsory obligation to disclose information. Law should provide this obligation in three aspects:the content of disclosure, the ways of disclosure and the legal liability .Sectionâ…¢is the improvement of law in government and consumer organization's obligation of information.The innovation of this paper is that consumers'right to know is protected from two perspectives: consumers'right enjoyment and suppliers'obligation of information disclosure and author suggests establishing suppliers'obligation of information in three aspects.
Keywords/Search Tags:consumers'right to know, consumers'right enjoyment, obligation of information disclosure, suppliers
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