EU Provisions: Health & Consumer Protection in terms of Intellectual Property Rights

Abstract

The safety and health of European patients and consumers are subject to double protection: in national law, first and foremost in the EU European secondary legislation (regulations, directives and decisions), in a complementary or subsidiary manner, as appropriate. consumer protection is very broad to defend their economic interests, their physical security is the subject of a general directive and several specific directives, consumer protection policy took off at European level about twenty years ago. The main objective of the article is to investigate the legal provisions of comparative law on consumer protection as beneficiaries of medical services and to establish the direct link of the right to health with consumer protection and intellectual property law, respectively.

Keywords

• health
• protection
• consumer
• security
• intellectual property.