Digital Single Market and geo-blocking
At a Glance
13-05-2015
On 6 May 2015 the European Commission unveiled its Digital Single Market Strategy with which, inter alia, it intends to remove barriers to e-commerce across Europe. One such barrier is 'geo-blocking', that is commercial practices that prevent or restrict customers from accessing or purchasing a product or a service online, thereby adversely affecting cross-border e-commerce in the EU.
At a Glance
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- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- case law (EU)
- competition
- competition law
- consumer protection
- consumption
- copyright
- electronic commerce
- EU competition policy
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- intra-EU trade
- marketing
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- refusal to sell
- research and intellectual property
- single market
- TRADE
- trade policy