Consumer Protection: An Analysis for Albania’s Positive Steps Towards Greater Protection

Abstract

It is evident that Albania is taking positive steps towards the highest level of consumer protection. Consumer rights protection was a concept that was initially articulated after the ‘90s, considering that in the previous communist regime we only had the interaction between the seller and the buyer, as everything was controlled by the state. It was impossible to claim legal consumer protection at the time, the way we do now. Nowadays we convincingly assert that the Albanian consumer fully enjoys its rights and fulfils all the obligations set forward by the law. Buying expensively in the market does not mean that you are buying safe. Knowing what and where you are buying means protecting your health and that of the other persons around you. The measures undertaken by the Albanian government to protect the consumers have proved to be positive and have impacted the increase of quality and the achievement of safety on what the Albanian consumer has access to in the market. This paper indicates the measures undertaken by our country for the protection of consumers.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n6p73