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Mercoledì 17 Settembre 2003
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AND OTHER ELECTRONIC BUSINESS APPLICATIONS : EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAUNCHES CONSULTATION ON LEGAL PROBLEMS FOR ENTERPRISES DOING E-BUSINESS
Brussels, 16 September 2003 - The European Commission has launched an eight-week Internet consultation on legal barriers that enterprises still encounter when using electronic commerce and other electronic business applications. Such problems could arise, for example, from divergent national legal provisions for electronic invoicing or from a different legal treatment of online and offline business. The Commission would be interested to learn more about remaining practical reasons for not doing business electronically. This consultation is open to all enterprises until 7 November 2003. The results of this consultation will be presented and further discussed at a conference in March/april 2004 in Brussels. Enterprise Commissioner Erkki Liikanen said: "The Eu legal framework for e-business is well and widely established. It´s now time to take stock of remaining barriers and decide how to remove them. This discussion should be based on practical examples and experience, not just on theoretical views of what may go wrong." The consultation on legal barriers in e-business is addressed to enterprises taking part in e-business and experienced in doing business online. Business associations, chambers of commerce and other interested parties are invited to inform their members about the consultation and to provide the Commission by e-mail - with their general opinion on the existing legal framework for e-business in the European Union and the Acceding Countries. All comments will be duly taken into account, in assessing what has been achieved so far and in which areas further progress is still needed to establish a favourable environment for e-business in Europe. Stakeholders are invited to consult the questionnaire at the following web page: http://europa.Eu.int/yourvoice/consultations/index_en.htm This quick and user-friendly questionnaire uses the Commission´s Interactive Policy Making (Ipm) tool (see Ip/01/519), which aims to improve governance by using the Internet for collecting and analysing reactions. A summary of the replies will be published in January 2004. In addition, general comments can be sent to entr-ict-e-business-law@cec.Eu.int. All comments received will be published on the Commission´s web site: http://europa.Eu.int/comm/enterprise/ict/policy/b2b-con2003/index.htm
