Commitment to Product Compatibility between Legal Texts and the impact of Nanotechnology

Abstract

Consumer protection has become a necessity resulted by the economic system, especially due to the imbalance in the consumer-intervener contractual relationship; the intervener resorting to the use of a new technology in the food industry known as nanotechnology. Therefore, various comparative legislations and the Algerian legislation require that marketed consumer products conform to the consumer’s legitimate needs. This study aims to define the provisions on the commitment to the compatibility of the products, both national and imported, to the specifications and technical regulations aiming to respond to the consumer’s legitimate needs, thus, to protect the consumer, especially in light of the emergence of nanotechnology. Therefore, under law No. 09/03 on consumer protection and fraud prevention, amended and completed, and in the aim of limiting the nanotechnology harmful effects on food production, the Algerian legislator requires the intervener to practice self-censorship, and the fraud-prevention agents to practice administrative censorship