Seminar Contracts on the Internet 2006

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Seminar Contracts on the Internet 2006

• CÓRDOBA 16 Y 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2006

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Seminar Contracts on the Internet 2006

• Part A Presentation of the eCommerce Contact
  Point Germany
• Legal background
• Tasks and activities
• Figures of 2005 and development in 2006
• Part B Online Subscription Cases
• Definition
• Legal situation
• Cooperation with the German Wettbewerbszentrale

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Part A The eCommerce Contact Point

• Founded in 2003
• Art. 19 IV eCommerce Directive
• Tasks
• To inform
• To forward to the correct contact person

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Network of eCommerce Contact Points
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Increase of Information Requests
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Topics of Interest
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Activities in 2006

• Online subscription cases
• ODR Workshop ODR in Europe in October 2006
• Brochures Shopping Online in 2005
• Sicher Surfen in 2006

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Part B Online subscription cases

• Use of misleading terms like gratis 100 sms
  included, test stage or trial subscription
• How to attack the contract
• Expression of will
• Rescission from the contract
• Revocation

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Competition Law

• Law against Unfair Trading
• Cooperation with the German Wettbewerbszentrale
  Control Centre against Unfair Competition
• Launched in 1912
• Handling more than 20 000 complaints every year
• Aim to improve and observe fair competition

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eCommerce Contact Point Germany

• Euro-Info-Verbraucher e.V.
• Susanna Münstermann
• eCommerce Verbindungsstelle Deutschland
• Tel. [phone]
• muenstermann_at_euroinfo-kehl.com
• www.ecommerce-verbindungsstelle.de