Integrity

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Integrity (mhd. Lūterkeit : purity, decency ) is a term that is referred to the fairness and honesty. The term is also used in national and international law, competition, trade, marketing, advertising and journalism.

Meanings

The associated adjective louder (mhd. Lūter , ahd. (H) lūttar = pure; bright, clear, eigtl. = Cleaned, rinsed) has two meanings:

  • pure , unmixed (e.g .: "pure gold", "pure spring water", "he tells the pure truth"),
  • decent , noble (eg: "a pure character", "she has pure intentions.", "a pure mind", "a person of pure disposition").

The noun “integrity” refers to the second meaning. The associated verb lautering denotes different forms of purification.

Fairness law

In a study on the feasibility of a general legal framework for fairness in trade, a distinction is made between five legal terms, "namely de [m] of good morals (Austria, Germany, Greece, Portugal), the fairness of business transactions (Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and Spain) , good marketing practice (Denmark, Finland and Sweden), illegality (Netherlands) and fault (France). The choice of words is still strongly influenced by which legal system the country in question has always belonged to (legal system) ”. A consensus on fairness is a condition for Community trade and competition law.

The European Union has nationally different views on what is unfair in business, harmful to consumer interests and therefore undesirable, recognized as a factor of uncertainty and distortion of competition and, in particular, as an obstacle for entrepreneurs and consumers to participate in a functioning internal market for services such as goods and their freedoms. The Directive 2005/29 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 on unfair commercial practices in the internal market between businesses and consumers therefore sees itself as a measure to promote cross-border trade and the protection of consumers , whose confidence in the market by unfair Business practice could be undermined. She forbids them. By this she means in particular misleading actions (i.e. actively deceiving consumers or by failing to provide the necessary information, e.g. about the address of the trader) and aggressive influence, e.g. by harassing or necessitating. In its appendix, it names 31 unfair business practices such as untruthful advertising with a code of conduct or a seal of approval to which one has submitted, decoy offers or persistent unsolicited contact via telephone or e-mail. In Germany the directive sets the law against unfair competition ( UWG ).

Regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011 of October 25, 2011 with regard to its information about food created special rules to protect consumers against being misled . Violations of its principles of fair information practice are punishable in Germany.

philosophy

  • Central concept of the late philosophy of Friedrich Wilhelm Josef Schelling, z. B. in the "Philosophy of Revelation" (1841/42, Berlin lectures).

literature

  • Ralf Höhne: Legal problems in the control of integrity in research, possibilities and limits of scientific control , 2001. ISBN 978-3-7890-7313-7

Web links

Wiktionary: Integrity  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lauterkeit in duden.de, accessed on March 28, 2010.
  2. ^ Walter Frenz: Handbuch Europarecht: Europäische Kartellrecht Springer, ( books.google.com ).
  3. ↑ Hans Caspar von der Crone : Takeover law principles: transparency, equal treatment and fairness ; rwi.uzh.ch ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed March 28, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rwi.uzh.ch
  4. ↑ Press Council ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (queried on March 28, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.presserat.ch
  5. ↑ Lauter in Duden online, accessed on March 28, 2010.
  6. ↑ integrity. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885, Sp. 385-386 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  7. ↑ ec.europa.eu  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed on March 28, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / ec.europa.eu  
  8. ↑ Regarding the findings on the importance of a consensus with regard to fairness rules : Recitals No. (2) to (4) of Directive 2005/29 / EC . Article 5 Paragraph 1: Prohibition of unfair commercial practice, Articles 6 to 7 misleading, Articles 8 to 9 aggressive commercial practice. Appendix I list of case groups
  9. ↑ The food business operator's rules of integrity, Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011. In Germany closer to § 11 LFGB with § 59 Abs. 1 Nr. 7 LFGB