Recent changes in the Spanish law about consumer protection after law 3/2014, of 27 march, which modifies the TRLCU : special reference to the right of withdrawal

Abstract

The recent publication of Law 3/2014, of 27 of March, by which the recast of the General Law for the Defense of the Consumers and Users is modified and other complementary laws, approved by Real Legislative Decree 1/2007, of 16 of November has meant the transposition to our national right. The Directive 2011/83/UE of the European Parliament and the Council, of 25 of October of 2011, on the rights of consumer, by which the Directive 93/13/CEE of the Council and the Directive 1999/44/CE of the European Parliament and the Council and the Directive 85/577/CEE of the Council and the Directive 97/7/CE of the European Parliament and the Council are been modified, has supposed an impulse to the protection of the European consumers and users and to the consolidation of the domestic market providing both the consumers and the entrepreneur with a greater legal security. It pretends to walk towards the complete harmonization of the domestic legal system of the States and for this reason it has introduced substantial modifications in the matter of contracts with the consumer and users, it has abolished the norm relative to celebrated contracts at a distance contracts and off –premises contracts and certain aspects of the sale and the guarantees of the consumer goods, with a broader regulation of the right of withdrawal.