Date: 28 october 2010.
Place: Fondation Universitaire - Brussels

Ten years after the adoption of the Directive of 8 June 2000 on electronic commerce, this international Congress aims at analyzing main rules or principles it settled, in order to determine if they are still adapted to current features of services provided by means of information and communication technologies (in particular, internet). Indeed, with web 2.0, new services, which did not exist as such in 2000, are available (social networks, wiki, etc.). Contracts are not necessary concluded between professionals (B2B) or between a professional and a consumer (B2C): C2C relationships, through eCommerce marketplaces especially dedicated to consumers or online auction websites, become more and more frequent. Several services are also provided by trusted third parties (time-stamping, archiving, registered letters, etc.). New kinds of advertising can be observed (in particular, addressing to minors). Contract relationships can also be concluded and performed by electronic means, for instance in the case of digital contents like music, software or movies. After general speeches dealing with transversal topics related to eCommerce, the following ones will focus on these issues, and analyze “consumer protection”, “legal barriers to electronic contracts” and “intermediaries’ liability”.

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