Medium Hard Law – Still No Horizontal Direct Effect of European Community Directives After Faccini Dori
1 Colum. J. Eur. L. 469 (1995) Gerrit Betlem. Researcher at the Center for Enforcement of European Law/NISER, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. What is the law when a private party seeks to invoke, against another private individual, the right to cancel a contract derived from an EC Directive which has not been implemented into domestic law within the required time limits? In short, that is the central question not only of this article but also of a dispute between a consumer and a trader involving a contract negotiated away from business premises. In terms of Community law, the case raises […]