Digital Single Market and geo-blocking

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.

Written by Tambiama Madiega.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: A Digital Single Market for Europe: Commission sets out 16 initiatives to make it happen http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-a-digital-single-market-for-europe-commission-sets-out-16-initiatives-to-make-it-happen/

ESO: Background information: EU commissioners at odds over geo-blocking http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-commissioners-at-odds-over-geo-blocking/

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