Digital Signature Licitness for Business Termination Contract in European Union

How to eSign a document: digital signature licitness for Business Termination Contract in European Union

[Music] we are entering a new age a digital age and so that's why that we have to make sure that the digital single market is not fragmented and therefore I think it's necessary that we have a kind of a contract law in place what treats everything a little bit the same that was Axl vorce the EPP group spokesperson for the parliaments legal Affairs Committee who Co drafted a report about contract law for digital content speaking about a vote on a new law creating an eu-wide standard set of contract rules for digital content provided by businesses to consumers as consumers across the EU we are increasingly downloading or web streaming movies buying cloud storage accessing information from social media but what happens when things go wrong say you can't access the digital content or the content damages your computer right now some EU countries have laws covering this sort of thing while others do not the law includes rights for consumers to damages and a right of redress if for example the provider fails to supply the digital content mr. Voss explained how the new law will help consumers and businesses for business and consumers it should be a kind of a clear signal that we would like to have this single market in in this area and a kind of a frame for how to treat the data how to treat the contract and what does this mean for redress the most important point for us as a PP group is that we will have the first step into the full harmonization issue for contract law in the parliaments legal affairs committee MEP s also voted on new rules on the use of copyright and related rights for online transmissions and retransmissions of TV and radio programs the Commission wants the Copyright Act relevant for the provision of certain online services such as recorded broadcasts only to apply in the EU country where the broadcasting organisation is established the so-called country of origin principle Angelica Niebla who is the EPP group spokesperson on this issue explained the dangers of this approach we had some difficulties in accepted the proposal from the Commission because it's a one-size-fits-all proposal and I think this does not be in line you know with preserving cultural diversity all over Europe under the Commission's proposal film producers will be obliged to sell only one licence to show their films to one new country that will then be valid for all EU countries currently they raise finance to produce their films by selling licenses to individual countries under the so-called principle of territoriality Mis Niebla explained the consequences of the Commission proposal our fear was that for our European film producers it's going to be very difficult to get the financing for their films for their movies and that's actually what the holy European film industry told us please stick to the country to the principle of territoriality you know it's not that we are producing we are making a film for all over Europe but we have different cultural habits in France in Spain in Poland in the Netherlands in Germany and the the outset and you know the marketing of the movies is different in a related development the European Parliament European Commission and European Council reached a provisional agreement to end geo blocking for physical goods and services geo blocking is where consumers are deprived of access to physical goods and services based on their nationality residence or IP address it means that in the future consumers will be able to for example buy new electrical goods rent a car or buy concert tickets or use their credit card across the EU as easily as they do in their home country in committee votes MEP s have approved new rules for both sets of issues two new pieces of EU legislation are expected to be passed when all MEP s have a final vote find out more about the activities of the largest political force in the European Parliament by checking out IPP grupe you thanks for watching and see you time you