International business comments on the proposed EU directive on certain legal aspects of electronic commerce
(European Commission Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive on Certain Legal Aspects of Electronic Commerce in the Internal Market (COM (1998) 586 final))
Publication date : 27/07/1999 | Document Number : 373/354
World business has consistently recommended to governments that they can best support further growth of electronic commerce by focusing their energies on providing a basic legal and institutional framework that ensures effective competition as well as general trust through more predictable and media-neutral rules.
The European Commission has stated that its primary aim in issuing the draft Directive on Certain Legal Aspects of Electronic Commerce is to respond to this call from the private sector and to eliminate certain legal obstacles that remain to the online provision of services, particularly for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
In 1998, an alliance of key business organizations (the International Chamber of Commerce; the International Telecommunications User Group; the World Information Technology and Services Alliance; the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD and the Global Information Infrastructure Commission) representing a broad and diverse range of businesses in every part of the world issued a Global Action Plan for Electronic Commerce.
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Ayesha HASSAN
Senior Policy Manager, Digital Economy
Tel:
+33 (0)1 49 53 30 13
ayesha.hassan@iccwbo.org