Centre for European Economic Law - Study Centre for Consumer Law

The mission of the Centre is to promote research in the field of European economic law, in particular the law of the European Community relating to the "four freedoms" (free movement of goods, persons, services and capital/payments), banking and financial services law, competition law and consumer law. European law is studied in its relationship with national law, but also the law of other Member States, in a comparative perspective.

The members of the Centre are all active in one of more of these fields. Research activities include projects for the European Commission and the national government, the organisation of workshops and conferences and the publication of books, articles and reports on subjects in the following fields of the law:

• Competition law, including EU merger control, the rules on state aid and the modernization of EU antitrust law;
• Consumer law, including unfair commercial practices, consumer rights, consumer dispute settlement and class actions;
• Financial services law, including prospectus and transparency rules, investment services laws (MiFID), consumer credit and mortgages and payment services; and
• European economic law, including the case law of the European Court of Justice in this domain.

Over the last years the Centre participated at, or co-hosted, various conferences in Leuven, Brussels, London, Oxford, Manchester, Paris, Lille, Fiesole (Florence), Vienna, Montreal or Cambridge (USA). You can find on this website a link to a list with recent academic projects to which the members of the CEER/SCR have contributed.

The CEER/SCR entertains many contacts with academic institutions and scholars in Belgium and abroad, i.a. by organising seminars and workshops and participating in scientific events organised by affiliated institutions. The Centre is regularly commissioned with research projects by the Belgian and European authorities.