EU rules affecting e-commerce
2 April 2012
Q: My company does a fair bit of business with European countries and we’re thinking of adopting e-procurement. Does the European Union e-commerce directive have any relevance for us?
A: Paul Abbiati, an e-law consultant with PMMS and a member of the CIPS legal committee, writes: The e-commerce directive was adopted on 8 June last year and was published in the Official Journal of the European Communities the following month. Its objective is to ensure that information society services benefit from the internal market principles of free...