International Harmonization of Consumer Protection Law

继1995年关于国际保护消费者和协调消费者法的项目之后，1996年的项目已在北美和亚太国家进行。1996年研究所涉及的国家和组织（访问的城市）有：美国（华盛顿特区和纽约）、加拿大（温哥华）、澳大利亚（悉尼和墨尔本）、新西兰（克赖斯特彻奇和惠灵顿）、韩国（首尔和釜山）和联合国总部（纽约）。1985年联合国消费者保护准则出台十年后，对美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰和韩国的消费者保护准则的现状和实施情况进行了研究。D. Harland教授（悉尼）对发展中国家执行情况的研究作出了贡献。民间消费组织在《指南》的实施中发挥了重要作用，我们还访问了国际消费者联盟组织（IOCU）总部，与国际消费者联盟组织的安东尼·史密斯先生进行了联合调研。就消费者保护的个别研究领域而言，1)欧盟与消费者保护有关的竞争法(Prof.。胺);2)德国法律中合同条款在订立合同前的通知要求（Kano教授）；3)美国的电信和消费者保护（Hotta教授）；4)金融服务业的消费者保护（Nagao教授）；5)消费信贷与多元文化的关系（Ramsay教授）；6)德国消费信贷法的私法方面（Animator教授）；7)欧盟消费者组织的禁制令可信度（Yamane教授）；8)争端解决申诉专员制度（竹滨教授）；9)诉诸司法和小额索赔（Deguchi教授和Mizuno先生）和其他论文已起草，将于1997年7月出版。1997年3月，作为与釜山大学的合作项目，对韩国和日本的消费者保护法律和制度进行了比较研究。少

Following the 1995 project on the international protection of consumer and harmonization of consumer laws, the 1996 project has been done in North America and Asia-Pacific countries. The countries and organizations (cities visited) covered in 1996 research were: the United States (Washington, D. C. and New York), Canada (Vancouver), Australia (Sydney and Melbourne), New Zealand (Christchurch and Wellington) and South Korea (Seoul and Pusan) and the United Nations Headquarters (New York).After the decade of the United Nations Guideline on Consumer Protection in 1985, status and implementation of the Guideline in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Korea have been studied. Professor D. Harland (Sydney) has contributed in his research on the implementation of developing countries. Nongovernmental organizations in consumer affairs have been playing an important role in the implementation of the guideline, and we have also visited the headquarters of the International Org … More anization of Consumer Unions (IOCU), currently CI, and conducted a joint research with Mr. Anthony Smith of the CI.For individual areas of study on consumer protection, 1) competition law in relation to consumer protection in EU (Prof. . Amine); 2) notification requirement of contract clauses prior to concluding contract in German law (Prof. Kano); 3) telecommunication and the protection of consumers in the United States (Prof. Hotta); 4) consumer protection in financial services (Prof. Nagao); 5) consumer credit in relation to multiculturalism (Prof. Ramsay); 6) private law aspects of consumer credit laws in Germany (Prof. Animator); 7) injuncitivereleive for consumer organizations in EU (Prof. Yamane); 8) Ombudsman system for dispute settlement (Prof. Takehama); 9) access to justice and the small claims (Prof. Deguchi and Mr. Mizuno) and other papers have been drafted for publication in July 1997.Comparative study on Korean and Japanese consumer protection laws and institutions were carried out as a joint program with the Pusan National University in March 1997. Less