On 12 November 2020, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) held online the Workshop on ‘European Small Claims Procedure: A tool for resolving low-value disputes’. The workshop was held by Dr. Marco Giacalone, PhD student Sajedeh Salehi and Ms. Margarita Synanidi, as the representative of the European Consumer Centre (ECC) of Belgium. The event started with an introduction by Sajedeh Salehi who illustrated the legislative framework. In...

On December, 1st Adiconsum in partnership with Ecc – NET presented a webinar about the European Small Claims Procedure and how the european citizens’ right are not limited by european borders. During the seminar  presented the FAQs and TIPs that Adiconsum prepared as Partner for SCAN Consortium,  to explain the European Small Claims Procedure and to resolve all the possible questions the european citizen could ask about...

On Novemer 30,2020 from 9.00 a.m. to 10.40 a.m., the dissemination workshop “Sistemi automatizzati di risoluzione delle controversie – Automated dispute resolution system” was held by the Department of Law of UNINA – University of Naples. Due to the pandemic, the dissemination workshop was held online by Microsoft Teams platform provided by UNINA. The seminar was held in Italian by Prof. Francesco Romeo, PhDs Irene Abignente, Cristina...

Can the small claims procedure be a helping tool to react to some problems arising from the Covid-19? Yes, of course! Let’s think about the non-refund of money paid for a service that cannot be performed, in particular for a travel that we could not realize considering warnings or restrictions at borders. On 13 May the Commission adopted a recommendation on this issue. In the Recommendation on vouchers offered to passengers and...

Can the small claims procedure be a helping tool to react to some problems arising from the Covid-19? Yes, of course! Let’s think about the non-refund of money paid for a service that cannot be performed, in particular for a travel that we could not realize considering warnings or restrictions at borders. On 13 May the Commission adopted a recommendation on this issue. In the Recommendation on vouchers offered to passengers and...