There has been on-going discussion regarding the alignment of cloud computing services to a range of European policy objectives. This paper provides an outline of key legal and regulatory aspects arising from recent calls for establishing a Europe-only cloud. After covering the background to...

There appears to be universal agreement that antitrust policy should "protect competition, not competitors" and that consumer welfare is the fundamental standard for evaluating competitive effects. There is considerable debate, however, about how to implement those principles in practice when...

The economic impact of the compulsory grading legislation imposed by the EC is analysed. It is shown that the system imposed certain and immediate costs on producers and consumers, while any possible benefits were uncertain and distant. The system imposed bore no relation to the realities of the...

By regulating how firms collect, store, and use data, privacy laws may change the role of data in production and alter firm demand for information technology inputs. We study how firms respond to privacy laws in the context of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by using seven...

The draft Regulation on a Common European Sales Law (CESL) proposes the introduction of a sui generis regime for the implied terms in contracts for the supply of digital content. The question which this article explores is how far that regime might extend to cloud computing contracts with an EU...

This deliverable presents the preliminary results of T:D-4.1 of Work Package 44 of the Cloud Accountability Project. This deliverable is partly an exploratory deliverable which investigates whether there has been a rise in the number of investigations of cloud providers conducted by the European...