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(52) In order to ensure a high level of consumer protection, Union and national law provide for a number of rights and safeguards related to credit agreements granted to a consumer. Those rights and safeguards apply in particular to the negotiation and conclusion of the credit agreement, to the use of unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices as laid down in Directive 2005/29/EC and to the performance or default of the credit agreement. That is notably the case in relation to long-term consumer credit agreements falling within the scope of Directive 2014/17/EU, in respect of the right of the consumer to discharge fully or partially the consumer’s obligations under a credit agreement prior to the expiry of that credit agreement or to be informed by means of the European Standardised Information Sheet, where applicable, on the possible transfer of the credit agreement to a credit purchaser. Borrower rights should also not be altered if the transfer of the credit agreement between a credit institution and a credit purchaser takes the form of contract novation. As a general principle, it should be ensured that borrowers are not worse off following the transfer of their credit agreement from a credit institution to a credit purchaser. This Directive should not prevent Member States from applying stricter provisions in order to protect borrowers.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.