The Colombian Consumer Act —Law 1480, 2011— still generates relevant questions about how to explain the protection system of users. That said,
, it is important to study the meaning and effect of the principles of the Colombian Consumer Act —article 1—, that involve the essential and basic issues of Consumer Law in this country. With this goal in mind, this paper aims to examine the implications of those principles in order to think about a Consumer Law in Colombia that suggest an organized and harmonic system of rules aiming for the protection of the consumers. This is because; the mentioned principles and the Colombian Consumer Act are the mainstay of this new part of law.