9 THE ITALIAN LAW JOURNAL NO. 2 (2023)
New Solutions and Critical Remarks from Squaring the Circle of Dieselgate:
by Emanuele Tuccari Dieselgate – first revealed about ten years ago – is a complex affair that has raised numerous legal, environmental and economic issues in the context of (national and supranational) systems with very different characteristics. It has therefore become a ‘neverending case’, harbinger of multiple reflections, in a constantly cha(lle)nging global context. DOI 10.23815/2421-2156.ITALJ ISSN 2421-2156
Towards a Fruitful Coordination Between Automotive and Consumer Law?
The reflections presented here – moving therefore from the emblematic event of the ‘Dieselgate’ – begin to develop critical considerations with reference also to the identification of a complex balance between different socio-economic instances, traceable to competition and sustainability, in the current European Union legal landscape. This EU system – destined to be echoed, albeit sometimes differently, in the national legal system of the individual member states – has so far developed mainly thanks to the constant dialogue between wide-ranging and structured automotive and consumer law, on the one hand, and numerous rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union, on the other hand. The result is a detailed reconstruction – characterised by positives and negatives – outlined herein, starting from the specific perspective of individual remedies in consumer law.
