545-0173/03 – Consumer Protection (OS)
| Gurantor department | Department of Economics and Control Systems | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Pavel Staša, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Naděžda Klabusayová, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The subject informs on the development of consumer protection, its legislative framework in European Union countries and in the Czech Republic.
Explain the basic rights of consumers and the procedure of their exercising, and consumers’ participation in the creation of new products.
Apart from other things, assess the actual practical examples and model situations will be analysed that will enable students to obtain a deeper insight into ordinary problems in the field of consumer protection and safe products.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Summary
Instruction in the subject analyses the position and specification of consumers in the CR and the EU and includes special terminology, analysis of legislature, statutes and regulations connnected with consumers protection and makes clear consumers status in standardization and their participation in the standard process.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
credit 100% test
E-learning
Other requirements
Student must done credit test.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Objectives and principles of consumer policy
2. Entry into consumer protection issues
3. Legislation of consumer protection in the European Union
4. International and national institutions of consumers
5. Consumer protection in EU member countries
6. Consumer protection in the Czech Republic
7. Act no 634/1992 of Coll., consumer protection
8. Act no 89/2012 of Coll., civil code
9. Dishonest dealings and discrimination of a consumer, concluding of consumer contracts
10. Rights resulting from liability for defects of a sold thing and their exercising
11. Act no 102/2001 of Coll., product general safety
12. Act no 22/1977 of Coll., products technical requirements
13. Technical harmonization and consistency assessment
14. Act No. 40/1995 Coll., On Advertising Regulation
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction