09/12/2007
Law no. 52 of 1996 introduced rules into the Italian legal system to protect the consumer in his contractual relations with professionals.
In order to rationalize regulations which have been complicated by a long sequence of amendments, a Consumer Code was recently published (Legislative Decree no. 206 of 6 September 2005), which contains a thorough reworking of most of the consumer-protection rules.
Article 3 of the Consumer Code defines a "consumer" as a physical individual who acts