Comparison of Czech, German and Austrian legal regulation in E Commerce

The thesis compares national legal regulations in area of E-Commerce in Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic. The comparison has been made from several points of view. The first section of the thesis focuses on the area of incorporation of three European directives (93/13/ES on unfair terms in consumer contracts, 97/7/ES on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts and 2000/31/EU on electronic commerce), which frame consumer protection on the European level in respect of e commerce contracts. In the next section basic principles of contract law are compared in each of the surveyed legal systems. Each of the contract related conditions are compared step by step to their partner conditions in the other two countries (general terms and conditions, information duty of entrepreneur, consumer's right of withdrawal). The very last section covers an international civil law, and its effects on consumer protection as analyzed in compared nations. The comparison has proved my primary assumption that all three legal systems in the area of E Commerce almost identical, aside from the major difference in the definition of the term consumer itself