BALANCING CONSUMER RIGHTS AND BUSINESS INTERESTS IN ONLINE CROSS-BORDER CONSUMER CONTRACTS

Protection of consumers as weaker parties is an important goal in Indonesian society and in Indonesian law. The same applies to the EU Member States. When it comes to crossborder consumer contracts, special rules are needed to ensure this goal can still be achieved. In this regard the European Union...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathijs H. ten Wolde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bank Indonesia 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Central Banking Law and Institutions
Subjects:
Online Access:https://jcli-bi.org/index.php/jcli/article/view/11
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1849722597369970688
author Mathijs H. ten Wolde
author_facet Mathijs H. ten Wolde
author_sort Mathijs H. ten Wolde
collection DOAJ
description Protection of consumers as weaker parties is an important goal in Indonesian society and in Indonesian law. The same applies to the EU Member States. When it comes to crossborder consumer contracts, special rules are needed to ensure this goal can still be achieved. In this regard the European Union developed rules on jurisdiction and applicable law which apply both to situations exclusively connected with EU Member States and to international situations connected with third countries. The Brussels I Regulation pursues an objective of legal certainty which consists in strengthening the legal protection of persons established in the European Union, by enabling the applicant to easily identify the court in which he may sue and the defendant reasonably to foresee before which court, he may be sued. The Rome I Regulation does the same for the law regulating the protection of the consumer. This way both the aims of protection of the weaker consumer and legal certainty on the side of the commercial party go hand in hand. Where legal certainty is an important precondition for international trade and thus for a nation’s economy, clear rules are needed. By presenting the EU rules in the dynamics of the caselaw of the European Court of Justice, this article aims to contribute to the discussion on how future cross-border consumer protecting regulations could be shaped in Indonesia and ASEAN.
format Article
id doaj-art-31d294a9c8384d56ae2610bf6d6450cf
institution DOAJ
issn 2827-7775
2809-9885
language English
publishDate 2022-01-01
publisher Bank Indonesia
record_format Article
series Journal of Central Banking Law and Institutions
spelling doaj-art-31d294a9c8384d56ae2610bf6d6450cf2025-08-20T03:11:18ZengBank IndonesiaJournal of Central Banking Law and Institutions2827-77752809-98852022-01-011112210.21098/jcli.v1i1.1111BALANCING CONSUMER RIGHTS AND BUSINESS INTERESTS IN ONLINE CROSS-BORDER CONSUMER CONTRACTSMathijs H. ten Wolde0University of Groningen, NetherlandsProtection of consumers as weaker parties is an important goal in Indonesian society and in Indonesian law. The same applies to the EU Member States. When it comes to crossborder consumer contracts, special rules are needed to ensure this goal can still be achieved. In this regard the European Union developed rules on jurisdiction and applicable law which apply both to situations exclusively connected with EU Member States and to international situations connected with third countries. The Brussels I Regulation pursues an objective of legal certainty which consists in strengthening the legal protection of persons established in the European Union, by enabling the applicant to easily identify the court in which he may sue and the defendant reasonably to foresee before which court, he may be sued. The Rome I Regulation does the same for the law regulating the protection of the consumer. This way both the aims of protection of the weaker consumer and legal certainty on the side of the commercial party go hand in hand. Where legal certainty is an important precondition for international trade and thus for a nation’s economy, clear rules are needed. By presenting the EU rules in the dynamics of the caselaw of the European Court of Justice, this article aims to contribute to the discussion on how future cross-border consumer protecting regulations could be shaped in Indonesia and ASEAN.https://jcli-bi.org/index.php/jcli/article/view/11cross-borderconsumer protection european unionindonesiaprivate international law
spellingShingle Mathijs H. ten Wolde
BALANCING CONSUMER RIGHTS AND BUSINESS INTERESTS IN ONLINE CROSS-BORDER CONSUMER CONTRACTS
Journal of Central Banking Law and Institutions
cross-border
consumer protection
european union
indonesia
private international law
title BALANCING CONSUMER RIGHTS AND BUSINESS INTERESTS IN ONLINE CROSS-BORDER CONSUMER CONTRACTS
title_full BALANCING CONSUMER RIGHTS AND BUSINESS INTERESTS IN ONLINE CROSS-BORDER CONSUMER CONTRACTS
title_fullStr BALANCING CONSUMER RIGHTS AND BUSINESS INTERESTS IN ONLINE CROSS-BORDER CONSUMER CONTRACTS
title_full_unstemmed BALANCING CONSUMER RIGHTS AND BUSINESS INTERESTS IN ONLINE CROSS-BORDER CONSUMER CONTRACTS
title_short BALANCING CONSUMER RIGHTS AND BUSINESS INTERESTS IN ONLINE CROSS-BORDER CONSUMER CONTRACTS
title_sort balancing consumer rights and business interests in online cross border consumer contracts
topic cross-border
consumer protection
european union
indonesia
private international law
url https://jcli-bi.org/index.php/jcli/article/view/11
work_keys_str_mv AT mathijshtenwolde balancingconsumerrightsandbusinessinterestsinonlinecrossborderconsumercontracts