24By virtue of its scheme and aims, therefore, the Directive is to be distinguished from Council Directive 85/577/EEC of 20 December 1985 to protect the consumer in respect of contracts negotiated away from business premises (OJ 1985 L 372, p. 31). The sole restriction which the latter directive places on the types of contract falling within its scope ratione materiae is that they must concern the supply of goods or services, provided that the purposes pursued by the consumers can be regarded as outside their trade or profession. It seeks to protect such consumers by conferring upon them a general right to terminate a contract which has been entered into, not on the initiative of the customer but of the trader, when the customer may not have been able to appreciate all the implications. It was specifically on the basis of the aim of that directive that the Court held that a contract for the benefit of a third party — more specifically, a contract of guarantee concluded in consequence of a ‘doorstep sale’ — cannot be excluded a priori from its scope (see Case C-45/96 Dietzinger [1998] ECR I-1199, paragraph 19).
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