The Principle of the Right to Information and Its Relationship to the Guarantees Granted to the Consumer during Economic and Commercial Events

Abstract

The right to information, as a general legal principle, finds its framework in many fields,particularly those related to trade and economics, through the necessity of observing this rightwithin the framework of consumer protection under legal rules, especially in contexts thatwitness commercial exchanges and economic and commercial offers in which the forms ofgoods and merchandise displayed are numerous, including manufactured and semimanufactured goods, as well as others unfamiliar to the ordinary consumer due to the presenceof modern technological elements that have transformed the nature of the product, commodity,or merchandise offered for sale or marketing by the economic operator, whether national orforeign.The importance of the right to inform consumers—whether ordinary or professional—increaseswith the diversity and scope of attraction of economic or commercial events to participatingcountries, since the consumer, investor, or advertising and marketing companies retain theirlegal rights and guarantees to information prior to concluding various contracts (sale, transport,advertising, marketing, distribution, etc.). Therefore, the right to information as a consumerguarantee strongly asserts itself during the organization of economic and commercial eventsand becomes even more important when the event is international and more specialized.