Consumer Protection in Peru: Origins, Evolution, and Main Regulatory Influences

C Carranza Álvarez; O A Alcántara Francia

doi:10.1007/s10603-022-09506-7

Consumer Protection in Peru: Origins, Evolution, and Main Regulatory Influences

J Consum Policy (Dordr). 2022;45(1):87-102. doi: 10.1007/s10603-022-09506-7. Epub 2022 Feb 8.

Authors

C Carranza Álvarez¹, O A Alcántara Francia²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Law, Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, Lima, Peru.
² Faculty of Law, University of Lima, Lima, Peru.

Abstract

In the following text, the authors address the origins and evolution of consumer protection in Peru, as well as highlighting the main regulatory influences of the current 2010 Consumer Protection and Defence Code with regard to consumer sales (defective products), and the regime of abusive clauses, to which is added a reference to protection of personal data.

Keywords: Abusive clauses; Consumer regulations; Defective products; Personal information.