Course: Consumer Protection 2

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Course title Consumer Protection 2
Course code USSV/FOS2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šmíd Martin, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Consumer protection legislation under the Consumer Protection Act. Consumer loan. Consumer protection. General and technical requirements for products (Act No. 102/2001 Coll., On General Product Safety, Act No. 22/1997 Coll., On Technical Requirements for Products, Product Conformity Assessment when Placing on the Market) Implementing regulations concerning technical requirements for products. Environmental aspects of consumer protection - CTIA supervision in the field of packaging, air protection, fuel, etc. Verification and handling of firearms, ammunition and pyrotechnic articles. Selected Other Public Aspects of Consumer Protection. The case law of Czech courts and the Court of Justice of the EU in consumer protection matters.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Work-related activities
  • Preparation of a presentation (report) - 25 hours per semester
  • Contact teaching - 39 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 31 hours per semester
  • Writing a seminar paper - 25 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an exam - 30 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint students comprehensively with the issue of consumer protection with a focus on knowledge of the Consumer Protection Act, public consumer protection and significant domestic and European judicial decisions
A student who has successfully completed the course can: to characterize international and European consumer protection regulations and their relationship to consumer protection; explain basic public principles of consumer legal protection; explain selected aspects of public consumer protection (especially in the field of technical and safety requirements for products, environmental protection and weapons, ammunition and pyrotechnics); distinguish between private and public law related to legal relationships between consumers and entrepreneurs when selling products and providing services; to explain the basic institutes arising from the legislation relating to legal relationships between consumers and entrepreneurs when selling products and providing services; briefly characterize selected case law of Czech courts and the Court of Justice of the EU in consumer protection matters. A student who has successfully completed the course can: Recognize in practice when and how consumer protection rules can be applied; determine the correctness or incorrectness of the consumer's practice in protecting his rights; assess the decisions of state authorities and courts in consumer protection matters; solve practical problems arising from consumer relations; to solve the presented practical problem of consumer protection by applying legislation. The student who has successfully completed the course is able to: to communicate in a clear and convincing way to professionals and lay people information on the nature of professional issues and their own opinion on their solution.
Prerequisites
Passing the course Consumer Protection I

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment, Presentation

Oral exam, the condition is attendance, fulfillment of a given share of ongoing tasks during the semester (presentation, discussion, solution of model examples, seminar work).
Recommended literature
  • Vacek, Lukáš. Zákon o spotřebitelském úvěru . Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7478-776-8.
  • VEČERKOVÁ, E., SELUCKÁ, M. DUDOVÁ, J., URBANOVÁ, M. a kol. (. Společensko-právní aspekty ochrany spotřebitele a jeho zdraví. Brno, 2015. ISBN 978-80-210-8050-8.
  • Vítová, Blanka. Zákon o ochraně spotřebitele . Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7478-984-7.
  • Vlachová, Barbora. Rozhodování správních orgánů ve spotřebitelských sporech. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7400-811-5.


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