Consumer sales guarantees in Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian law

Each examined legal order acknowledges the voluntary character of consumer commercial guarantees, complementing the seller's legal liability for the lack of conformity. The peculiarity of Slovenian law is the existence of a mandatory guarantee for the flawless operation of the goods for at least one year, covering the so-called "technical goods" imposed upon the producer. The hierarchy of consumer remedies in the case of the commercial guarantee is three-level in Croatian law: repair is considered primary, replacement secondary, and termination of the contract and price reduction tertiary claims. On the other hand, in Serbian and Slovenian law, there is no obligatory hierarchy between the remedies in this regard. Another essential difference between the examined legal orders concerns the non-existence of a separate institute of the producer's guarantee of durability for certain goods for a certain period in Serbian law, unlike in Croatia and Slovenia.