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I voted for the Dumitrescu report and I am delighted that thanks to Parliament’s efforts we have been able to adopt viable compromises for all the players involved. For Luxembourg, Article 5 of the regulation is vitally important.
This article reinstates contractual freedom allowing the two parties – the consumer and the professional – to choose which national law should apply to their contract, either that of the consumer’s Member State of residence or that of the professional’s Member State.
In its proposal the Commission attempted to change this by saying that only the law of the consumer’s country of residence would apply. This would have had devastating consequences for the smaller Member States, since businesses operating in the Single Market from these countries would have been forced to apply up to 27 different national legislations, which would have deterred SMEs in particular from undertaking commercial activities beyond their national borders.
Consumers in the smaller Member States would have seen a considerable reduction in supply, since the increase in red-tape resulting from this proposal could have persuaded operators to stop providing services for consumers living in these countries."@en1
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