Consumer protection and raising product safety standards are treated by both the European and Polish legislators as priority values. Consumer rights are universal in the sense that each of us is a consumer at some stage. Due to the transformations that the global economy is undergoing, which currently no longer consists solely of national markets operating without mutual connections, it is becoming necessary to develop common legal solutions of a supranational nature. These changes include in particular the growth of e-commerce. The European Union has developed a digital single market strategy for Europe, which in its assumption is to comprehensively address the elimination of significant barriers to the development of cross-border e-commerce in the Union, so that its potential is unleashed. European consumers are to be provided with better access to digital content and services, and European entrepreneurs are to be able to provide them with this content and services more easily. These actions are intended to strengthen the EU’s digital economy and stimulate overall economic growth. In Poland, consumer rights are guarded by the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, Trade Inspection authorities and relevant consumer protection organisations. The high level of protection also results from the activities of international bodies, including in particular European legislative institutions. Legal acts issued by EU bodies aim to unify the level of protection and law within the EU. In this respect, two directives in the field of consumer contract law implemented into Polish law at the beginning of 2023 should be cited as examples – the Goods Directive and the
Digital Directive, which have significantly affected consumer rights. The purpose
of this paper is to provide an in-depth assessment of the provisions on consumer
rights, with particular emphasis on the legal status before and after the amendment of the provisions by the Act of 4 November 2022 implementing the directives
of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU), and the impact of the above
changes on consumer rights.