Law is one of the most dynamic and creative fields of law, and one of the most important practice, not only by the increasingly widespread phenomenon of consumption, but also due to the current crisis and the need to rebuild confidence and trust structures to foster the desire to consume, on which the economic system is largely dependent. It is, moreover, one of the areas in which Community directives have had higher incidence and, also, the legislative body more receptive to the influence of the new contract law inspired in the European rules and they aim to achieve uniformity.
The purpose of this course is the study of both the internal regulations and European standards of consumer protection, which demand a serious reflection on the future of practice dealing in this sector. Essentially, the Royal Decree 1/2007, which approves the Revised Text of the General Law for the Defence of Consumers and other complementary laws, even though it is a Law that has sparked numerous critics, it was enacted with the aim of being the basic rule or the general provisions of consumers law in our legal system, and it¿s increasingly applied by the Courts of justice.
Recently, the transposition of Directive 2011/83 / EU on consumer rights of October 25, 2011 -carried out by Law 3/2014, of March 27- has brought remarkable changes in the TRLGDCU. The author of this Act has not only transposed the Directive into our General Act, but has also take advantage of the occasion to introduce modifications and new rules in the previous regulation. It must also be noted that the Law 3/2014 has reformed plenty of laws and abrogated some others.
All the above explains the importance of this area, placed in the centre of the current reflection of Private Law, as evidenced by the fact that the Draft Proposal on Modernization of the Law of Obligations and the Law of Contracts, elaborated by the General Commission of Codification, finds it necessary to include in such text the basic rules of consumer law, in line with the German Law on the modernization of the law of obligations.