The Union University School of Law (UUSL) in Belgrade hosted the Protection of Collective Interests of Consumers International Legal Science Conference on 24 October 2020. It was organized by UUSL and the Comparative Law Institute within the 2020 Protection of Consumers’ Collective Rights in Serbian Comparative Law in-house scientific project coordinated by Prof. Katarina Ivančević, SJD.

Due to the current COVID-19 related epidemiological situation, the Conference was implemented online, using the Zoom platform. The participants were greeted by Prof. Katarina Ivančević, SJD from UUSL, Prof. Jelena Jerinić, SJD, the UUSL Vice Dean for Scientific Research, Prof. Nataša Mrvić Petrović, SJD, a Board Member of the Comparative Law Institute and Tamara Samardžić, Assistant Minister with the Serbian Ministry of Commerce, Tourism and Telecommunications.

The Conference agenda had five panels dedicated to the following issues: introductory considerations, the administrative procedure, inspection and legal offence proceedings in cases of misdemeanors, collective claims and lawsuits, extrajudicial and judicial proceedings and financial services. The presentations were followed by an engaging discussion. The Conference participants were scholars from Serbia, Austria, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain, Denmark, India, the USA and Romania.

The papers presented at the Conference will be published in a printed compilation by UUSL and the Comparative Law Institute.

Conference agenda (Serbian)
Conference agenda (English)

Organizing Committee:

Prof. Katarina Ivančević, SJD
Assist. Prof. Slobodan Vukadinović, SJD
Katarina Jovičić, SJD

Scientific Board

Prof. Maja Bukovac Puvača, SJD, Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Prof. Aleš Galič, SJD, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Prof. Tatjana Jovanić, SJD, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Nataša Mrvić Petrović, SJD, Institute of Comparative Law, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Tibor Tajti, SJD, Central European University, Budapest, Vienna, Austria
Prof. Meliha Povlakić, SJD, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia i Herzegovina
Ass. Prof. Nikola Dožić, SJD, Faculty of Law, University of Podgorica, Montenegro

Paper Compilation – Protection of Collective Interests of Consumers

Paper Compilation Cover with the Content

Papers:

  1. Odgovornost na temelju krivnje i objektivna odgovornost za štetu u odtšetnom pravu EU (Prof. dr sc. Maja Bukovac Puvača)
  2. Pacijenti kao potrošači – šta smo naučili iz slučaja Colin Gee and Others v. Depuy International Limited (Prof. dr. Jelena Simić)
  3. Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes (Prof. Tibor Tajti (Thaythy)
  4. Materijalnopravne i procesnopravne komponente definisanja prava potrošača u Bosni i Hercegovini (Prof. dr Branko Morait)
  5. Zaštita potrošača u ugovorima zaključenim van poslovnih prostorija i ugovorima zaključenim na daljinu u savremenom međunarodnom privatnom pravu Crne Gore (Mr Bojan Božović)
  6. Posebnosti upravnog postupka za zaštitu kolektivnog interesa potrošača (Prof. dr Jelena Jerinić)
  7. Inspekcijski nadzor i kolektivna zaštita potrošača u upravnom postupku: studija primera na slučaju Supernova (Prof. dr Stevan Lilić, Katarina Toskić)
  8. Prekršajnopravna zaštita potrošača (Prof. dr Nataša Mrvić Petrović, Prof. dr Slađana Jovanović)
  9. Collective Redress as an Ideal Model of Consumer Redress in the European Union? (Dr Mateja Đurović, Dr Eleni Kaprou)
  10. Kolektivna zaštita potrošača u Crnoj Gori – De Lege Lata i De Lege Ferenda – (Doc. dr Nikola Dožić)
  11. Aktivna legitimacija u postupcima kolektivne zaštite – ima li mjesta za advokate? (MJur (Oxon) Selma Mezetović Međić, MA iur.)
  12. Afera Dieselgate i njen uticaj na kolektivnu zaštitu potrošača u Nemačkoj i Evropskoj uniji (Dr Katarina Jovičić)
  13. Mehanizmi kolektivne zaštite potrošača od nepravičnih ugovornih odredaba (Doc. dr Slobodan Vukadinović)
  14. Više istovrsnih tužbenih zahteva u međunarodnoj arbitraži i značaj ove pojave za potrošačke sporove (Prof. dr Maja Stanivuković)
  15. Zaštita kolektivnih interesa potrošača kroz oblike alternativnog rešavanja sporova (Doc. dr Borko Mihajlović)
  16. Odabrana pitanja iz prakse suda Europske unije o europskom ovršnom naslovu (Izv. prof. dr sc. Gabrijela Mihelčić)
  17. Sudska zaštita kolektivnih interesa potrošača u evropi. Pouke za pravo Srbije (Doc. dr Aleksa Radonjić)
  18. Rethinking the Effectiveness of Consumer Protection Policies and Measures in the Financial Marketplace (Prof. Williams C. Iheme)
  19. Financial Consumer Protection in the U.S. and the E.U. A Preventive Building Block of Banking Bailout Law (Ph.D. Virág Blazsek)
  20. Kriptovalute kao novi izazov zaštite potrošača (Prof. dr Tatjana Jovanić)
  21. Protection of Consumers Provided in the Proposal for a Regulation of Markets in Crypto-Assets (Ágnes Horváth)
  22. Financial Inclusion Through Innovations – Improving Consumer Protection in Digital Financial Services (Esther Angonemi Ebimoghan)
  23. Zaštita potrošača korisnika usluge osiguranja od nepravičnih ugovornih odredaba (Prof. dr Katarina Ivančević)