Extensión de los foros de protección del consumidor a demandados domiciliados en terceros Estados

European Law does not provide for common grounds for jurisdiction where the defendant is not domiciled in the European Union. As a consequence the consumer might be unprotected. This result goes against the European Union consumer protection policy and may jeopardise the proper functioning of the internal market. Furthermore, the great diversity of the national rules of jurisdiction with regard to consumer contracts causes unequal access to justice. In the framework of the revision of the Brussels I Regulation this paper proposes the extension of the protective measures provided for by the Regulation whereas the defendant is domiciled in a third State. Nevertheless, the extension of the jurisdictional benefit needs to be adapted to the special features of the situations in question.