On Thursday 4/3/2021, following the recent legislative developments in the EU in consumer protection law and the adoption of the first Regulation on transparency in the operation of online platforms, Mina Zoulovits will be presenting during a 4hour seminar the changes to EU legislation regarding online contracts, both at the level of online shops and online platforms. The seminar is a complete guide with educational and practical content designed to familiarise participants with the new provisions of the European legal framework and to prepare them for the changes expected for e-commerce contracts.
The New Deal for Consumers (Directives 2019/770/EU, 2019/771/EU and 2019/2161/EU) for B2C transactions and the Platforms to Business Regulation (2019/1150/EU) for P2B transactions are the latest EU proposals to strengthen consumer law and promote transparency in transactions on digital platforms.
The seminar will be held by the Centre for European Constitutional Law (Tsatsos Foundation) under the auspices of GRECA, the Hellenic Association of Electronic Commerce.
For more information and registrations visit the Centre’s website. You can read the outline of the seminar here (in Greek).
The Directives must be harmonised into national law by the summer of 2021 and will enter into force from the beginning of 2022. All online businesses will need to prepare to bring their products, services and processes into compliance with the new legal requirements. The speaker also elaborated on the new legal provisions relating to online platform transactions under the new Platform 2 Business Regulation 2019/1150/EU, which came into force in July 2020.
Some of the issues that were dscussed with the aim of informing stakeholders to better prepare and adapt to the new regulatory framework included:
- the equal treatment and transparency rules that directly affect the way businesses in the B2C sector operate as well as the relationship between Marketplaces and the businesses that sell their products through platforms
- concerns regarding the implementation of the regulatory framework
- compliance procedures for businesses
- new obligations for traders and sellers operating in the digital business
- the reform of the legal framework for distant contracts
- obligations for businesses operating online intermediary platforms
The new comprehensive rules seek to create a predictable and competitive environment for online transactions and aspire to trigger a more uniform application of the rules for online transactions across the EU.
