Italy Introduces Consumer Class Actions

Tedioli, Francesco

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1392814

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Italy Introduces Consumer Class Actions

Francesco Tedioli

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April 21, 2009

Abstract:
Budget law 24 December 2007, n. 244 introduces, for the first time into Italian law system, a type of class action (called "azione collettiva risarcitoria") for awards of compensatory damages or payments of amounts to multiple individual users or consumers.

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Keywords: class action, italian class action

JEL Classification: K41

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Date posted: April 24, 2009

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Tedioli, Francesco, Italy Introduces Consumer Class Actions (April 21, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1392814 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1392814

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