!!!Konsumentenschutz

Consumer Protection; the term covers all the legal provisions designed 
to protect consumers against inferior merchandise and misleading 
advertising. - Consumer protection comprises provisions designed to 
protect health (e.g. food control) and safety (e.g. product 
liability), to provide information (e.g. price labelling) and to 
protect consumers in certain legal transactions of everyday life. 
So-called "consumer contracts", i.e. legal transactions between 
companies and consumers, are governed by the law on consumer 
protection of 1979; it contains special provisions concerning 
door-to-door selling, instalment contracts, sales against cash in 
advance and contracts on recurring deliveries or services as well as a 
catalogue of inadmissible contract clauses.

!Literature
H. Koziol and R. Welser, Grundriss des buergerlichen 
Rechts, vol. 2, %%sup 9/%1991.


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