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In connection with the spread of COVID-19 and the consequences it caused, the Slovak Republic has adopted several laws in various legal areas. One of them is the law, which has significantly affected the basic institutes of civil law. As the most important consequence can be considered the interference with the running of time limits, both substantive and procedural ones. In the case of substantive time limits (both standard limitation periods and extinctive limitation periods), a temporary suspension of these tim...

Under the influence of the law of the European Union, in the Slovak Republic, special attention has been drawn to consumer protection for some time already. Consumer protection is provided for in several laws. Particularly resonant is the protection of consumers from unfair contractual terms, as laid down in the Civil Code (Act No. 40/1964 Coll.) and the Civil Litigation Procedure (Act No. 160/2015 Coll.). In the Civil Code, unfair terms are defined by the general clause. Also included is demonstrative enumeration...