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The UNGCP Guidelines: Some Comments

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Now that the General Assembly has passed the revised Consumer Protection Guidelines in December 2015, we have two tasks. The first is to critique the Guidelines themselves and ask whether they are sufficiently protective for the lived conditions of the world’s natural persons who have a personal family or household purpose. The second is to ask whether the proposed international infrastructure can effectively add to safeguarding all of us, all of the world’s natural persons.

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  1. 1.

    UNGCP para 4.

  2. 2.

    1985paras 27, 34, 36.

  3. 3.

    1985 B paras 13–23.

  4. 4.

    UNGCP 111 para 5 (b).

  5. 5.

    UNGCP 111 para 5 (a).

  6. 6.

    UNGCP para 5 (e) (f).

  7. 7.

    UNGCP V J (e) (f).

  8. 8.

    UNGCP 111 para 5(e).

  9. 9.

    Updating the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection For the Digital Age 2013 Kuala Lumpur 2013 pp. 6–8.

  10. 10.

    Guidelines for Consumer Protection UN General Assembly a/RES/39/248 16 April 1985 111 Guidelines para 8.

  11. 11.

    UNGCP 1 para 1 (g).

  12. 12.

    UNGCP 1V para 11.

  13. 13.

    UNGCP 11 para 2.

  14. 14.

    UNGCP V paras 12, 13.

  15. 15.

    UNGCP para 16, para 33, para 34.

  16. 16.

    UNGCP 1 para 1 (k).

  17. 17.

    UNGCP V1 paras 82–90; V11 paras 95–97.

  18. 18.

    UNCTAD Implementation Report United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection (1985–2013) July 2013, TD/B/C.1/CLP.

  19. 19.

    UNCTA Draft Resolution on Consumer Protection for consideration by the General Assembly 25 June 2015.

  20. 20.

    Guidelines for Consumer Protection UN General Assembly a/RES/39/248 16 April 1985 111 Guidelines para 15, 17.

  21. 21.

    UNGCP V C para 24.

  22. 22.

    UNGCP V11 para 97 (h).

  23. 23.

    UNGCP 1V para 11.

  24. 24.

    UNGCP 111 para 5 (j).

  25. 25.

    UNGCP 1V 11 (c).

  26. 26.

    UNGCP 1V para 11 (a)–(f).

  27. 27.

    UNGCP 1V (11) (c).

  28. 28.

    UNGCP 1V 11 (e).

  29. 29.

    UNGCP 1V 11 (f).

  30. 30.

    UNGCP V A para 14.

  31. 31.

    UNGCP V A para 15.

  32. 32.

    UNGCP V H para 49–62.

  33. 33.

    UNGCP V I para 63, 64.

  34. 34.

    UNGCP V I para 65.

  35. 35.

    OECD Guidelines for Consumer Protection in the Context of Electronic Commerce, 1999.

  36. 36.

    UNCTAD Implementation Report United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection (1985–2013) July 2013, TD/B/C.1/CLP p 17.

  37. 37.

    UNGCP V I para 76.

  38. 38.

    UNGCP V I para 77.

  39. 39.

    UNGCP V F para 37, 40.

  40. 40.

    UNGCP V F para 41.

  41. 41.

    UNGCP V F para 38.

  42. 42.

    UNGCP V K para 78.

  43. 43.

    UNGCP V1 para 82.

  44. 44.

    UNGCP V1 para 83–85.

  45. 45.

    UNGCP V1 para 86.

  46. 46.

    UNGCP V1 para 87.

  47. 47.

    OECD Guidelines for Protecting Consumers from Fraudulent and Deceptive Commercial Practices Across Borders para 1 Scope and definitions, B.

  48. 48.

    UNGCP V1 para 89.

  49. 49.

    UNGCP V11 para 96.

  50. 50.

    UNGCP V11 para 95.

  51. 51.

    UNGCP V11 para 97, 99.

  52. 52.

    UNGCP V11 para 98.

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Pearson, G. (2017). The UNGCP Guidelines: Some Comments. In: Lima Marques, C., Wei, D. (eds) Consumer Law and Socioeconomic Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55624-6_3

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