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Fragmenting Consumer Law Through Data Protection and Digital Market Regulations: The DMA, the DSA, the GDPR, and EU Consumer Law

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dc.contributor.authorElizalde, Francisco de
dc.contributor.funderComisión Europea
dc.contributor.funderAgencia Estatal de Investigación
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dc.date.accessioned2025-03-25T12:26:02Z
dc.date.available2025-03-25T12:26:02Z
dc.date.issued0025-02-24
dc.description.abstractThe paper assesses the impact of EU digital legislation on general consumer law. To that end, it addresses the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act in their interaction with the General Data Protection Regulation, as the legal instruments of economic characteristics that seem to confront consumer law more straightforwardly. The main claim that the paper makes is that they fragment consumer law by altering its bases and afecting its principal horizontal provisions, namely, the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD, 2005) and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive (UCTD, 1993). The transformation arises from the assumption, by the digital regulations, of the competition concern for market structure and business size while ignoring the nuances among the users of digital services. The societal aims of the EU’s digital policy are also relevant, particularly those concerning personal data. Overall, the digital laws frame a regulation of private relationships that does not pivot on consumption while afecting consumers. Consumer law could be gradually giving way to EU digital private law.
dc.description.fundingtypeThis paper forms part of the ‘CLA’ project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ research and innovation programme under the Jean Monnet Actions in the field of Higher Education: Centres of Excellence grant agreement No. 101048112; and PID2023-149184OB-C43 granted by MCIU /AEI /10.13039/501100011033 / FEDER, UE.
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dc.identifier.citationde Elizalde, F. (2025). Fragmenting Consumer Law Through Data Protection and Digital Market Regulations: The DMA, the DSA, the GDPR, and EU Consumer Law. Journal of Consumer Policy, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-025-09584-3.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-025-09584-3
dc.identifier.issn1573-0700
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3672
dc.journal.titleJournal of consumer policy
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final35
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dc.page.total35
dc.publisherSpringer Nature Link
dc.relation.departmentPrivate & Business Law
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.projectID101048112
dc.relation.projectIDPID2023-149184OB-C43
dc.relation.schoolIE Law School
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.keywordEU digital legislation
dc.subject.keywordMarket regulation
dc.subject.keywordConsumer law
dc.subject.keywordFragmentation of EU consumer law
dc.subject.keywordEU digital regulations
dc.subject.keywordPlatform regulation and EU private law
dc.titleFragmenting Consumer Law Through Data Protection and Digital Market Regulations: The DMA, the DSA, the GDPR, and EU Consumer Law
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