Problem with the concept of “sales” in the new Polish Consumer Rights Act – the question of mixed contracts with a service component

Authors

Fryderyk Zoll, Prof. dr hab. Fryderyk Zoll, Katedra Prawa Cywilnego UJ, profesor zwyczajny Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego i Uniwersytetu w Osnabrück. Kierownik Katedry Polskiego Prawa Prywatnego, Europejskiego Prawa Prywatnego i Prawa Porównawczego Uniwersytetu w Osnabrück. Członek Komisji Kodyfikacyjnej Prawa Cywilnego. Członek stowarzyszony Akademii Prawa Porównawczego w Paryżu, członek Rady Europejskiego Instytutu Prawa, doktor honoris causa Narodowego Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Tarnopolu

Keywords

Directive 2011/83/EU, Consumer Rights Act, contract of sales, mixed contract

Abstract

The paper deals with questions surrounding the transposition of the Consumer Rights Directive into the Polish legal system. The paper focuses on Article 2. No 5. of the Directive and its implementation. The Polish legislator has passed a separated Consumer Rights Act and yet some of the relevant provisions are placed in the Polish Civil Code. Problems arise in the mutual interaction of relevant rules spread in two different legal acts. The national rule implementing Article 2 No. 5 of the Directive has been placed in the Consumer Rights Act. It defines sales contracts but also covers mixed contracts with a service component. Although its implementation has been placed outside the Civil Code, the above provision plays the role of a general rule in relation to the provisions implementing the Directive that have been inserted into the Civil Code. This complex multi-layer structure causes several problems with the actual scope of the application of Article 6 of the Consumer Rights Act. The paper deals also with the methodology of the technique used to implement European law in the codified system.

Recommended Citation

Zoll, F. (2014). Problem with the concept of “sales” in the new Polish Consumer Rights Act – the question of mixed contracts with a service component. internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation), 3(4), 8-20. Retrieved from https://press.wz.uw.edu.pl/ikar/vol3/iss4/1

First Page

8

Last Page

20

Page Count

12

Publisher

University of Warsaw