Abstract
In EU law notion of consumer is of crucial importance. Each EU instrument defines consumer for its own purposes.
Despite being phrased in different ways, the vast majority of the definitions of consumer found in EU legislation share a common core. Accordingly, a consumer is a natural person, who is acting outside the scope of an economic activity.
This paper is based on the hypothesis that this universally recognized definition of consumer in EU law, as individual acquiring goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing, is not sufficiently accurate. The purpose of this paper is to analyse EU consumer protection law.
The reason for this research is that EU consumer protection law development brought a shift in paradigm and currently there are strong interrelations between the role of the consumer and of the citizen of the EU.