The European dimension of the consumer’s protection policy

The process of the European integration and the developing of the internal market have led to the necessity of introducing a common policy for the consumers’ protection. As the policy for the consumers’ protection has been established as a well-structured policy at the levelof the European Commission it is also clearly ranked among the priorities of the internal market and it is a distinct chapter of the communitary acquis for the integration (chapter 23). The development and the implementation of this policy at the level of the EU have been a progressive process în accordance with the evolution of the internal market amd it supposed to adopt a legislative and institutional system in order to ensure a high and uniform level for the consumers’ protection on the EU scale.Consumers’ protection; Consumers’ rights; Legislative framework; Institutional framework