The concept of the rights of consumers and suppliers of goods and services in Iranian and European regulations

The word of ((consumer & supplier)) are essential in commerce realm. To know their rights & duties, it is necessary an exact meaning of them. Its clear that consumers are weaker than suppliers in commercial transactions, so many Rules & Directives has been set to protect them. But we can see some differences between definitions in national & international laws & it has vital influences on national law in the rate & kind of protection of consumers.The most important point in European definitions is that they didn’t produce a general definition about the Consumer.On the contrary of our Law,they have tried to produce special definitions in different Directives. In this paper we try to acquaint the meanings of this words, common & different points in Iranian & European laws to revise our rules & make better protection of consumers in the realm of commerce.