Set-Off as a Defence under the Small Claims Regulation and under current Private International Law

The development of the internal market of the EU and its regulation in the event of debt collection is of paramount importance for consumers’ confidence. To this aim, the European Union has adopted very competitive regulations to ensure cross-border debt collections: Regulation No. 1896/2006 establishing a European order for payment procedure, as amended by Regulation No. 2017/1260, and Regulation No. 861/2007, establishing a European small claims procedure, as amended by Regulation 2017/1259. To these acts is devoted the Project Train2en4ce (financed by the EU-JUST-JTRA-EJTR-AG-2018). The paper aims at analyzing the set-off in the small claims Regulation to highlight new problems and perspectives for Private International Law Scholars.