Geo-Blocking of Goods That Require Cross-Border Delivery : A Preliminary View on EU Policy Considerations
The European Commission has made legislative proposals to address “unjustified geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers' nationality, place of residence or place of establishment …” The Commission's proposal seeks to address long-standing concerns that relatively few consumers in the EU make e-commerce purchases cross-border within the EU, and that relatively few merchants sell cross-border. The Commission's legislative proposal avoids imposing restrictions on geo-blocking (i.e. “conditions of access”) on any goods that require cross-border delivery. The exclusion is understandable inasmuch as cross-border delivery of goods imposes burdens on the merchant – it is clear that prices to the end-user cannot be the same as in the case of domestic delivery. At the same time, this “carve out” means that a large fraction of e-commerce is outside the scope of the key provisions of the proposed legislation. This paper represents a very preliminary attempt to identify the challenges, and possible responses to them. The challenges regarding shipping costs that initially drew our attention to the problem could potentially be addressed in a fairly straightforward way, but there are numerous additional challenging problems that would need to be addressed, and these are more difficult to gauge
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2017
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Authors: | Marcus, J. Scott |
Other Persons: | Petropoulos, Georgios (contributor) |
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[2017]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (19 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 19, 2017 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.3007578 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951326
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