On The Protection Of Consumers’Right To Know In EU Law

Operators’mandatory obligation to provide information, which is the main means of protection for consumers’ right to know in EU, has lower social cost of implementing this system, can be a minimum level of interference to private law relations of the public right, can reach a win-win result between consumers and operators. Decreed in2011, EU Consumer Rights Directive is a landmark legislation in the course of development of the EU consumer law. As a summary of the directive legislation, a blend of the past means of protection for consumers’right to know, the instructions for the operator specifies strict obligation to provide information, the legal text functions as a approriate mateiral for the study of EU consumer law. Based on the method of comparative study, my paper takes the protection technique of consumers’right to know in the EU laws as the object of study, and makes a research of the operators’ information obligation in EU Consumer Rights Directive, so as to provide advices to improve the system of the operators’information obligations in consumer protection laws in China.The first chapter introduces the legislative background and value of consumers’right to information. The second chapter focuses on the value of operators’information obligations in EU law, which is the main measure to protect the consumers’right to know, including the obligation in general and in Directives. Chapter III takes Germany as an example to observe transformation of the information obligations of Member States, the EU law has an conflict with the Pandect system in the process of transformation, which has followed the principle of comprehensive and loyalty, and Germany adopted the debt Reform Act and other ways to adapt the EU law. The fourth chapter is my suggestion to adopt the information obligations in consumer protection law in China, including to construct a complete legislation system and also an internal structure of the obligation...