Legal Requirements and Challenges for e-Business within the Single Electronic European Market
Publication: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 133, Issue 3
Abstract
The advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have not been fully exploited by industries despite the great potential they offer. A major initiative by the European Commission to establish a single electronic European market (SEEM) will provide a platform for e-Business on a pan European level. Legal issues represent one of the top concerns for the SEEM, which is high on the agenda of the European Union (EU) policies and strategies. This paper summarizes some of the key research findings of the EU funded SEEMseed project (Study, Evaluate, and Explore in the Domain of the Single Electronic European Market 2006), based on the four legal studies conducted in the project. It first presents the legal requirements of the SEEM through the e-Business life cycle, and then reveals the major legal barriers and possible solutions in the EU for the development of pan European e-Business platforms, based on an extensive pan European stakeholder survey.
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Acknowledgments
The SEEMseed project is supported by the European Commission under the IST programme (Contract No. IST-1-502515-STP). The writers would like to acknowledge the financial support of the European Commission, and record their appreciation to the SEEMseed project partners for their contributions to the project.
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Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 133 • Issue 3 • July 2007
Pages: 246 - 254
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Received: Aug 22, 2006
Accepted: Jan 11, 2007
Published online: Jul 1, 2007
Published in print: Jul 2007
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