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...

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...

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 the...

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 the occasion of the ” XVIII STAGE DI DIRITTO DELL’UNIONE EUROPEA ANDREA CAFIERO”, held online on 17-18-19 December on the Cisco Webex platform, the SCAN Project and how it has intervened to enhance the ESCP also in its future articulation and concrete implementation will be discussed. The Stage is promoted by Consiglio dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Napoli with the contribution of: Andrea Cafiero Associazione...

On Monday, January 11, 2021, the Tax and Law Department at HÈC Paris organized an online workshop on the future of cross-border small claims in Europe. The seminar was introduced and moderated by Professor Matteo Winkler (HÈC Paris) and the other speeches will be held by: Professor Alina Ontanu, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Dr. Pablo Baquero, HEC Paris.   The webinar started with an introduction by Professor Matteo Winkler (HÈC...

On 22 January 2021, the University of Naples Federico II and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) will hold online, on the MS Teams platform (due to organisational compliance, we were advised to use the MS Teams instead of Zoom), the Final Conference of the Small Claims Analysis Net (SCAN) project. The results of the SCAN project and the latest developments in the field of online consumer dispute resolution mechanisms will be...