Electio legis e contratti dei consumatori

Outlined the evolution of Community legislation as a result of the construction of the internal market and examined the reasons of legislative policy of consumer protection, this work analyzes, in the first part, the scope and purpose of the Rome I Regulation which represents the conversion into a Community instrument of the Rome Convention of 1980 on the law applicable to contractual obligations, and its relationship with other Community sources. In the second part, the analysis object is the conflict of law rule contained in article 6 of the Regulation relating to consumer contracts, highlighting innovative elements as compared to the previous conflict of law rule and reconstructing the ratio in coherence with the priority objective of the Regulation to ensure the effective implementation of the internal market and its correct functioning according to the rules of competition.