Integration and consumer protection: The case of Latin America
Tóm tắt
The author analyses Latin American attempts at creating a Common Market in which the free circulation of goods and services is guaranteed. He is concerned with the impact upon the emerging issues of consumer protection. The most promising project of economic integration has been initiated by the 1991 Asunción Treaty in which Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay participate and which has the aim of creating a Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR). The author describes the institutional mechanisms set up in order to establish MERCOSUR by the end of 1994. The safeguard clauses allowing for restrictions on trade in the interest of consumer protection follow the model of the European Communities but are not controlled by an independent Court of Justice. Therefore, harmonisation of legislation is imperative but difficult. If such harmonisation is not feasible, goods may become banned in some Member States while circulating freely in others, and marketing practices may at the same time be forbidden in some and allowed in other Member States. This could eventually endanger both integration and consumer protection.
Tài liệu tham khảo
citation_title=Mercosur e integración; citation_publication_date=1991; citation_id=CR1; citation_author=S. Abreu Bonilla; citation_publisher=F.C.U.
citation_title=Aspectos juridicos de la defensa del consumidor; citation_publication_date=1991; citation_id=CR2; citation_publisher=Universidad de Uruguay. Cuadernos de la Facultad de derecho y ciencias sociales de la Universidad de Uruguay
Arrighi, J. M., & Arbuet, H. (1990). Los vínculos entre el derecho internacional pÚblico y los sistemas internos.Revista Uruguaya de Derecho Constitutional y Politico, 37.
citation_title=La protección del consumidor en América Latina; citation_publication_date=1990; citation_id=CR4; citation_author=A. Benjamin; citation_publisher=IOCU
citation_title=Eléments pour une théorie du droit de la consommation; citation_publication_date=1988; citation_id=CR5; citation_author=T. Bourgoignie; citation_publisher=Story Scientia
citation_title=Manual de direitos do consumidor; citation_publication_date=1991; citation_id=CR6; citation_author=G. Brito Filomeno; citation_publisher=Atlas
citation_title=Droit de la consommation; citation_publication_date=1986; citation_id=CR7; citation_author=J. Calais-Auloy; citation_publisher=Dalloz
citation_title=Le marché unique européen; citation_publication_date=1989; citation_id=CR8; citation_author=D. Carreau; citation_author=E. Gaillard; citation_author=W. L. Lee; citation_publisher=Pédone
citation_title=Evolución reciente de la integración Argentina-Brasil; citation_publication_date=1991; citation_id=CR9; citation_publisher=Saxon
citation_title=Mercosur: El tratado de Asunción; citation_publication_date=1991; citation_id=CR10; citation_author=H. Gros Espiell; citation_publisher=IEEM
citation_journal_title=Journal of Consumer Policy; citation_title=The United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection; citation_author=D. Harland; citation_volume=10; citation_publication_date=1987; citation_pages=245-266; citation_id=CR11
citation_title=Codigo de defesa do consumidor; citation_publication_date=1991; citation_id=CR12; citation_publisher=ASV
citation_title=Algunos instrumentos para la protección legal del consumidor; citation_publication_date=1990; citation_id=CR13; citation_publisher=IOCU
citation_title=Derecho comunitario y protección de los consumidores; citation_publication_date=1991; citation_id=CR14; citation_author=C. Martinez de Aguirre; citation_publisher=Actualidad
citation_title=La protección de los consumidores y usuarios y la Constitución; citation_publication_date=1986; citation_id=CR15; citation_author=M. T. Quintela Goncalves; citation_publisher=I.N.C.
citation_title=Comentarios ao Código de ProteÇao do Consumidor por seus autores; citation_publication_date=1991; citation_id=CR16; citation_author=A. Pellegrini; citation_publisher=Saraiva
citation_title=Mercado y derecho; citation_publication_date=1985; citation_id=CR17; citation_author=N. Reich; citation_publisher=Ariel
citation_title=Protección jurídica del consumidor; citation_publication_date=1990; citation_id=CR18; citation_author=G. Stiglitz; citation_publisher=Depalma
citation_journal_title=Journal of Consumer Policy; citation_title=The Spanish Act on the Protection of the Rights of Consumers and Users; citation_author=I. Uriarte Bofarull; citation_volume=8; citation_publication_date=1985; citation_pages=169-182; citation_id=CR19