Legal consumer protection and protection laws consumer protection has its roots in people’s daily lives. The concept of being a consumer finds its expression in antiquity, in the time of people living in caves. People exchanged goods for goods in order to satisfy their pleasures or to meet their food needs. In its origin, the most ancient form of trade consists in the exchange or exchange of some items with others.
Another stage of Roman law that connects us with aspects similar to the concept of consumer, namely consumer credit, is the mandate to give money. This mandate consists of the order that the procurator gives to the procurator to give money to a third party or to open a loan for a third party. In this case a loan is created between the procurator and the third person.
These reflect the first moments of lawyers who aimed to regulate and establish the principle of equality between the parties safeguarding the rights of consumer protection. The buyer was the weakest party economically and the least legally protected. Likewise, the signatory countries to the Treaty establishing the European Union in Rome (the Treaty was concluded in 1957), at the end of 1973, will adopt the European Charter on Information and Consumer Protection, including their rights, which they had to do with interests economic, with the rights for protection from life and health risks, of products and services in the market, the rights for legal protection and state support.
According to the provisions of the Law on Consumer Protection in our country, a consumer is any natural person who buys and uses goods or services to meet their needs and not for purposes related to commercial activities, respectively for the resale of those goods.
. Consumer protection policy covers a field of action, which is unique, dynamic and specific, as well as broad and vital.
. The most essential components of consumer policy in the first place are the full continuous and comprehensive protection of the position, consequently of the rights, needs and requirements of the consumer for the protection of the rights for consumer protection.
There was always the risk of falling prey to the seller’s fraud in relation to the price, quality of the items or their shortcomings. In conditions where the principle of autonomy of the will had not yet taken its form and structure, sanctioned legal regulations from Roman law constitute the first embryo of establishing a balance in the market, a balance that deviates from the protection of the weaker party, the buyer.
