Showing posts with label digital single market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital single market. Show all posts
Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Coronavirus and digital finance: public consultations and other initiatives

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The current coronavirus pandemic made our financial lives exclusively digital. This raised new challenges but also opened new opportunities...
Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Long live the E-Commerce Directive? First discussions on the Digital Services Act

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Last week we informed about the Council's adoption of the first part of the New Deal for Consumers – directive on better enforcement a...
Saturday, 25 May 2019

DSM directives published

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Many of us have been waiting for this moment: on May 22 two Digital Single Market directives have been published in the Official Journal: D...
Wednesday, 27 March 2019

DSM proposals approved by the Parliament

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We have announced in December that the work on the DSM proposals (on digital content and on the sale of goods) was moving more smoothly and...
Thursday, 26 April 2018

European Blockchain Partnership: should consumer concerns be addressed?

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On the 10th of April 22 Member States entered into the European Blockchain Partnership , pledging to cooperate and share technical and regu...
Tuesday, 6 February 2018

EP votes on the geo-blocking regulation

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After a political agreement  on the proposed regulation prohibiting unjustified geo-blocking had been reached in November last year, there ...
Thursday, 7 December 2017

Digital content proposal extended to IoT

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Last month we have reported on the updated proposals for the Directive on online and other distance sale of goods ( Towards a more coher...
Monday, 6 November 2017

Towards a more coherent European contract law (once again)? Major amendments to the sales proposal

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Last Tuesday the Commission published an amended proposal for a directive on certain aspects concerning contracts for the (online and othe...
Wednesday, 26 July 2017

E-commerce: consumer confidence grows significantly

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Yesterday, the Commission published the 2017 edition of the Consumer Conditions Scoreboard.  Next to the observation that the share of...
Monday, 24 April 2017

GDPR, e-Privacy and beyond (part 2): the struggle over privacy and data protection continues

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The European Union has traditionally aimed to set comparably high standards of privacy and personal data protection. Indeed, the protection...
Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Putting an end to silos enforcement of consumer (data protection) rights?

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Last month, BEUC and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) held a joint conference on the enforcement of fundamental rights- not...
Monday, 13 June 2016

Public consultation on the safety of apps and other non-embedded software

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The EU Commission has recently launched a public consultation on the safety of apps and other non-embedded software. The consultation has ...
Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Third DSM package adopted

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On  25 May 2016 the European Commission adopted an extensive set of measures announced in the Digital Single Market Strategy. The  e-co...
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

A look into the future: What does 2016 hold for consumer law?

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There is no doubt that 2015 was quite a busy year for the European institutions. In the light of considerable social, economical and politi...