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2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780030
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: WRBKA STEFAN 九州大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (30583950)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: EU consumer law

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

I successfully completed my JSPS project. The outcome can be summarised as follows:
I carried out in depth research on developments in the area of EU consumer law with the help of a networked that I introduced in the course of the project ("information network"). The network included representatives from (1) the European Commission, (2) BEUC, (3) ECC-Net and (4) legal academia in the EU.
The results were published by Cambridge University Press in book format. The publication is: Wrbka, European Consumer Access to Justice Revisited (CUP, 2015). The result were disseminated at (1) conferences, (2) workshops, in (3) lectures / courses and (4) on the internet (blogs).
The project showed that the developments at both the procedural and substantive law level show deficits that impair the consuer trust in cross-border EU B2C trade. To overcome this I introduced a concept that I named "access to justice 2.0". This refers to (1) third party interemdiary actions and (2) legal adjustments.
Details build the basis for an upcoming study, again financed by JSPS.