Contract rules on the supply of digital content
The proposed Directive aims at creating EU wide rules for faulty digital content in order to enhance consumer’s trust in the Digital Single Market and create legal certainty. Instead of having 28 different sets of rules for digital content sold online, harmonised rules will reduce the costs for traders and encourage them to expand cross-border. Together with the Directive on online and other distance sales of goods, the Digital Content proposal is presented as part of the Digital Market Strategy
The proposed Directive will help consumers benefit from a higher level of consumer protection notably through a reversal of burden of proof, supplier's liability for defects and right to terminate long-term contracts.
Press/Studies/Multimedia
- Parliament boosts consumer rights online and offline (26.03.2019)
- Article: EU shoppers' rights boosted for online and offline purchases (20.03.2019)
- Press release: Digital content and sales of goods directives: MEPs back provisional agreements (20.02.2019)
- Consumers’ rights against defective digital content agreed by EU lawmakers (22.01.2019
- Contracts for the supply of digital content - statements by the Rapporteurs Evelyne Gebhardt & Axel Voss (21.11.2017)
- Press release: Buying online: EU-wide remedies against defective digital goods (21.11.2017)
- Study: How an EU Lifespan Guarantee Model Could Be Implemented Across the European Union
- EPRS, Contracts for supply of digital content, In-Depth Analysis, May 2016
- EPRS, Legislation in progress: Contracts for supply of digital content to consumers, Briefing, April 2016
- EPRS, Contract rules for online purchase of digital content and tangible goods, Implementation Appraisal, April 2016
- The new proposal for harmonised rules on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content, In-Depth Analysis, January 2016