| 英文摘要 |
One of the tasks of modern civil law is to provide effective and reasonable consumer protection. As a result, determining who the protected consumer is in relevant cases, and how the legal concept of a consumer is defined and understood, becomes an important legal issue because it is a prerequisite for applying these specific protection provisions. Different countries may have different ideas and specific regulations regarding consumer definitions. Therefore, this article chooses to study the concept of consumers in German civil law as a discussion topic to analyze the challenges in the concept’s composition and related classification. The reason for choosing the German civil law definition of consumers for discussion is because it takes a different approach than the Taiwan Consumer Protection Act’s definition in the first paragraph of Article 2, and it is uniformly regulated in the Civil Code, thereby having general universality and considerable reference value for Taiwan’s future discussions on the revision of related concepts. The article discusses the definition of consumers in German civil law and its development, followed by the legal requirements for the composition of the consumer concept in German civil law and an analysis of its content. The potential difficulties in classification is then introduced subsequently. Finally, on the premise of understanding the consumer concept in German civil law, the article concludes by offering some reflections on the definition of consumers under Taiwan’s Consumer Protection Act. |
