The New European Union Legal Framework on Consumer Financial Services Contracts Concluded at a Distance

SUMMARY: I. CONTRACT CONFIGURATION ITEMS: 1. Financial services as the object of the contract. 2. Peculiarities of contracts concluded at a distance. 3. Consumers as subjects to be protected.— II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION LEGAL FRAMEWORK: 1. New regulatory axes. 2. Complexity arising from the existence of overlapping rules.— III. MAIN RULES: 1. Requirements of the preliminary information: a) When it must be provided. b) How it should be supplied. c) Basic content. 2. The right of withdrawal. 3. Other important rules. — IV. CONCLUSIONS.— V. BIBLIOGRAPHY.