The Workshop aims to provide national judges and other legal practitioners with clear guidelines on the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (mainly art. 38 on consumer protection and art. 47 on the right to an effective remedy and to a fair trial) and on the application of the EU principles of effectiveness, proportionality and dissuasiveness in the area of consumer protection.
The Workshop will focus on the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union in setting these principles and on the tasks of national courts in their application to consumer cases. The Workshop will also provide guidelines on the possible modes of cooperation between judicial and administrative enforcing authorities in the light of the principles of effectiveness, proportionality and dissuasiveness.
By gathering practitioners from the widest possible range of EU Member States, the Workshop aims to promote a mutual learning process whereby participants contribute to identify relevant issues to be addressed and are enabled to share experiences and best practices in the interpretation and application of EU law. The active participation of attendees will thus be essential for a fruitful conduct of the Workshop not only in the course of this training initiative but also during its preparation and follow-on, with special regard to the identification of national interpretative practices and judgments which may be of interest for the training.
Programme
Workshop: 19 June
8.30 | Registration / Coffee & pastries |
9.00 – 9.30 | Opening of the workshop. Introduction to Re-Jus Project Professor Celina Nowak Professor Fabrizio Cafaggi |
9.30 – 10.50 | Roundtable Dr Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska Professor Paola Iamiceli Professor Mónika Józon Professor Joasia Luzak |
10.50 – 11.10 | Coffee break |
11.10 – 13.00 | Hypothetical 1 |
13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch break |
14.00 – 15.45 | Roundtable The role of preliminary references in European consumer protection Judge Teresa Bielska-Sobkowicz Justice William McKechnie Michal Novotný Judge José Mª Fernandez Seijo Judge Dr Jacek Sadomski |
15.45 – 16.00 | Coffee break |
16.00 – 18.00 | Hypothetical 2 |
19.30 | Dinner |
Workshop: 20 June
8.30 | Coffee & pastries |
9.00 – 10.30 | Roundtable Piotr Adamczewski Ms. Marina Catallozzi Professor Kati Cseres Professor Malo Depincé Dr Agieszka Jańczuk-Gorywoda Ms. Anne-Jel Hoele Judge Professor Dawid Miąsik Judge Cassandra Lange |
10.45 – 12.15 | Hypothetical 3 |
12.15 – 13.00 | Lunch break |
Seminar: 20 June
13.00 – 15.00 | Panel I Remedies and the impact of fundamental rights in consumer protection Professor Paola Iamiceli Professor Malo Depincé Professor Joasia Luzak Judge Ksenja Dimec Dr Mateusz Grochowski |
15.00 – 15.20 | Coffee break |
15.20 – 17.20 | Panel II Consumer vis-à-vis competition protection Professor Fabrizio Cafaggi Dr Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska Judge Professor Dawid Miąsik Ms. Anne-Jel Hoele Anna Van Duin Dr Agnieszka Jańczuk-Gorywoda |
