The Geo-Blocking Proposal: Internal Market, Competition Law and Regulatory Aspects
This Study analyses the Commission’s May 2016 Proposal for a Regulation addressing geo-blocking and other forms of customer discrimination based on customers' nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal market. The study assesses the Commission’s proposal under the Internal Market, Competition law and sector-specific rules and provides for policy recommendations and specific amendments to the proposal. This document was prepared for Policy Department A at the request of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
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Miguel POIARES MADURO (European University Institute), Giorgio MONTI (European University Institute) and Gonçalo COELHO (World Bank / Luís Morais, Associados)
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- broadcasting
- communications
- consumer protection
- consumption
- copyright
- culture and religion
- data protection
- digital single market
- digital technology
- discrimination on the basis of nationality
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- electronic commerce
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- information and information processing
- information technology and data processing
- LAW
- literary and artistic property
- marketing
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- proposal (EU)
- research and intellectual property
- rights and freedoms
- single market
- social affairs
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- sport
- technology and technical regulations
- telecommunications
- TRADE
- Treaty on the Functioning of the EU