{"id":576,"date":"2013-11-19T18:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T17:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ECCWORDPRESS\/2013\/11\/19\/commission-s-proposal-to-modify-the-small-claim-procedure\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T19:57:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:57:51","slug":"commission-s-proposal-to-modify-the-small-claim-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/news\/commission-s-proposal-to-modify-the-small-claim-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission&#8217;s proposal to modify the Small claim procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission is \u00a0taking action to improve the usefulness of the European small claim\u00a0procedure ( Regulation 861\/2007EC), by introducing a targeted set of practical changes to the way the procedure operates. The Commission&#8217;s proposal to revise the Small Claims Regulation will notably:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raise the threshold for filing a &#8216;small claim&#8217;\u00a0from \u20ac2 000 up to \u20ac10 000. This will notably benefit SMEs, making the procedure applicable to 50% of business claims (up from 20% today). Consumers also stand to benefit since about one fifth of their claims exceed \u20ac2 000.<\/li>\n<li>Widen the definition of what is a &#8216;cross-border&#8217; case\u00a0in order to help more consumers and businesses resolve their cross-border disputes.<\/li>\n<li>Cap court fees: Under the existing small claims procedure court fees can be disproportionate, in some cases even exceeding the value of the claim itself. Today&#8217;s proposal will ensure that court fees do not exceed 10% of the value of the claim, and the minimum fee cannot be higher than \u20ac35. It will also require that court fees can be paid online by credit card.<\/li>\n<li>Cut paperwork and travel costs: The new rules will enable claimants to launch the procedure online: email will become a legally valid means of communication between the parties involved, and teleconferencing or videoconferencing will become natural tools in oral hearings, wherever these are necessary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission is \u00a0taking action to improve the usefulness of the European small claim\u00a0procedure ( Regulation 861\/2007EC), by introducing a targeted set of practical changes to the way the procedure operates. The Commission&#8217;s proposal to revise the Small Claims Regulation will notably: Raise the threshold for filing a &#8216;small claim&#8217;\u00a0from \u20ac2 000 up to \u20ac10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}