Public Lecture: Consumer Protection in EU by Prof. Tamas Fezer
“Master and Doctoral students were invited to come in that Public Lecture in order to get more knowledge about Hungarian culture, education, and legal system. Because of Hungarian becomes one of the member of European Union thus this country has significant changes on law synchronizing the regulation in European Union.” said Dodik Setiawan Nur Heriyanto, SH, MH, Head of International Relations Committee during the interview with the mass media.”The existence of European Union implicates the harmonization of every European matters. The most of lawyer in EU interest to discuss and faces with the European Court of Justice. This ECJ stablished in order to judge the different interpretation and application of EU Legislation. One case recently become judged by ECJ was the interpretation of the legislation text regarding the cancelation of flight. The judge interpret that it is mandatory obligation for the airline to give compensation in the case of cancelation but not for the delayed flight.” said Prof. Fezer Tamas.
“There are four freedoms in EU communities such as freedom of goods, services, capital, and people and business. It means that no borders between the movement of that four things in each member of EU. Different if Hungarian person want to move to Indonesia, both of the countries shall established cooperation about that. But if Hungarian wants to move to Spain so that there is no checking passport or visa.” said Prof. Fezer Tamas.
Beside gave presentation about consumer protection Prof. Tamas also gave lecture about product liability. In Europe, the system of product liability is based on the burden of proof. Prof. Tamas gave case to the students in example there is corporation designed product which caused serious health damage thus those corporation should liable for the damages. “This product liability law can be as our guidance for our legislative members to draft the specific law for the consumer protection.” said Dr. Siti Anisah, SH, M.Hum, one of the participants.
After the presentation, the Vice Director of Postgraduate Study, Faculty of Law, UII, Drs. Agus Triyanta, MA, PhD gave souvenir of appreciation to Prof. Tamas. “We already got amazing and excellent knowledge from him. We hope for collaboration between UII and University of Debrecen in future.” said Dr. Ni’matul Huda, SH, MHum, the Director of Postgraduate Study, Faculty of Law, UII during the interview session. Umar Haris S., SH, MH became the moderator of this session and more than 40 students followed the public lecture.
