ANNEX B: Transposition Notes Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on consumer rights
526.This note describes the implementation in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 of Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on consumer rights, amending Council Directive 93/13/EEC and Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 85/577/EEC and Directive 97/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.
527.The Directive covers
	Information which traders should provide to consumers
	Cancellation rights and responsibilities for distance and off-premises sales
	Delivery and passing of risk provisions
	Measures to prevent hidden costs
528.The regulations that, alongside the Consumer Rights Act 2015, implement the Directive can be found in the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/3134). A full transposition note for the Directive was published alongside the regulations and can be found at www.gov.uk/bis. The Act replaces a small number of provisions of these Regulations, as set out below, for coherence with related measures in the Act, in accordance with the Government’s aim to ensure that regulation is simple and coherent as possible.
529.The provisions in the Act listed below reflect those in the Directive.
530.The two areas implemented in the Act relate to pre-contractual information and to the delivery of goods and passing of risk. Pre-contractual information, is made a term of the contract. In addition, the Act implements rules for the timing of delivery for goods and regarding when responsibility transfers from the trader to the consumer for goods delivered. The table below describes the transposition in the Act of the relevant provisions of the Directive.