(1) Distance contracts are contracts for which the trader, or a person acting in the trader’s name or on the trader’s behalf, and the consumer exclusively avail themselves of means of distance communication in negotiating and concluding the contract, except where the conclusion of the contract does not take place in the context of a sales or service-provision scheme organised for distance sales.
(2) Means of distance communication within the meaning of this Code are all means of communication that may be used to initiate or to conclude a contract, without requiring the simultaneous physical presence of the contractual parties, such as letters, catalogues, telephone calls, faxes, emails, text messages sent via the mobile telephone service (SMS) as well as messages broadcast and sent via teleservices.