The European Union faces an unprecedented challenge in regulating the rapidly expanding e-commerce landscape, where 4.6 billion low-value consignments entered the EU market in 2024 alone—equivalent to 12 million parcels daily and nearly double the volume from 2023.[1] This staggering growth…
Joint Statement Initiative on Electronic Commerce: a new era in global digital trade
by Fanni Fürjes At the 11th Ministerial Conference in December 2017, a group of 71 World Trade Organization (WTO) members agreed to initiate exploratory work towards future WTO negotiations on trade-related aspects of e-commerce. After almost seven years of negotiations on…
Effect on Trade between Member States: An element of competition procedure to be proved beyond any reasonable doubt or a notion to establish the applicable law?
The answer to the question posed in the title seems evident, if one looks at the function of the effect on trade between Member States within the framework of EU competition law. Simply put, and this is the essence of the…