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I AM A STUDENT OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCILA LAW AND RELATED TO MY SUBJECT I FOUND AN INTERESTING TOPIC. AND THE TOPIC IS ELECTRONIC CONSUMER CONTRACT. THIS TOPIC RELATED TO E COMMERCE. THE ENORMOUS SUCCESS OF E BAY, FACEBOOK, GOOGLE ILLUSTRATES HOW CONSUMER AND BUSSINESS ALIKE HAVE EMBRACED ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AND THE INTERNET N THE LAST DECADE. INDEED FOCUSING ON E BAY THERE ARE 86.9 MILLION ACTIVE USERS, 1 BILLION PAGE VIEWERS PER DAY. IN UK THE FIGURES OF ONLINE SHOPPING INCREASES DAY BY DAY. E COMMERCE WILL CONTINUE DEVELOP THE ECONOMY OF THE WORLD.

ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS HAVE RAPIDLY INVOLVED FROM CONTRACTS BETWEEN BUSINESS ON CLOSED PRIVATE NETWORKS, SUCH AS INTERNET BETWEEN BUSINESS AND CONSUMER (B2C) AND AMONGST CONSUMERS (C2C). PERHAPS AS A RESULT OF THIS RAPID EVOLUTION CONTRACT THE LEGAL REGIME APPLICABLE TO THEM IS ONE SINGLE INSTRUMENT BUT DEFINE ACROSS A VAST ARRAY OF DIRECTIVES AND NATIONAL LEGAL INSTRUMENT.THE MAIN TWO DIRECTIVES WHICH CAN BE IDENTIFIED AS A BACKBONE OF B2C CLECTRONIC CONTRACT REGULATION ARE THE DISTANCE SELLING DIRECTIVE (DSD).

CHANGES IN THE REGULATION OF CONSUMER E CONTRACTS ARE HOWEVER HORIZON. THE PROPOSAL ON CONSUMER RIGHTS (pDCR) PUBLISHED ON 8 OCTOBER 2008, SUGGESTS MAJOR ALTERATION. AT THE TIME OF WRITING THE PCDR IS ONLY THE FIRST STAGE OF THE LIGISTATIVE PROCESS AND WILL NOT DOUBT BE THE ODJECT OF FIERCE NEGOTIATIONS AMONGST THE MEMBER STATES IN THE MONTH TO COME. IT IS ALREADY CLEAR THAT BECAUSE OF ITS WIDE RANGING SCOPE, THE PCDR WILL HAVE AN IMPORTANT IMPACT ON ELECTRONIC CONSUMER CONTRACT. UNFORTUNATELYTHERE SEEMS LESS POLITICAL WILL FOR A REVISION OF THE ECD.INDEED RECENT DICUSSION   OF REFORM OF THE LAW IN FRANCE IMPLEMENTING THE ECD ON THE LIABILITY OF INTERMIDIATES WAS NOT WELL RECEIVE IN BRUSSELS, WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION INDICATING THAT IT DID  NOT CONSIDER  IT NECESSARY TO REVISED THE ECD AT PRESENT.

BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IS THE DEFINITION OF ELECTRONIC CONSUMER CONTRACT.

ANY CONTRACT CONCERNING THE GOODS OR SERVICES CONCLUDED BETWEEN A SUPPLIER AND A CONSUMER UNDER AN ORGANIZED DISTANCE SALES OR SERVICE PROVISION SCHEME RUN BY ASUPPLIER WHO FOR THE PURPOSE  OF THE CONTRACTS MAKES EXXCLUSIVE USE OF ONE OR MORE MEANS OF DISTANCE COMMUNICATION UP TO AND INCLUDING THE  MOMENT AT THE WHICH CONTRACT IS CONCLUDED.

AT LAST I THINK E COMMERCE MAKES THE LIFE SO EASY AND FOR THE ELECTRONIC CONSUMER CONTRACT, DISTANCE DOES NOT METTER. ONE CAN EASILY PURCHASE ANYTHING ANYTIME FORM ANYWHERE. IT IS ALSO NECESSARY TO REMEMBER THAT FOR E COMMERCE AND DISTANCE COMMUNICATION OR FOR CONSUMERCONTRACT THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMY INCREASE DAY BY DAY. SUCH AS IN UK NATIONAL STATISTICS SHOWS IN NOVEMBER 2008 UK BUSINESS RAISED TO £163 MILLION IN 2007 AN INCREASE OF OVER 30 PERCENT ON THE PREVIOUS YEAR. THE FIGURES ALSO REVEALED THAT 70.3 PERCENT OF BUSINESS HAD A WEBSITE. SO IN CONCLUSION IT CAN BE SAID THAT E COMMERCE ARE BENEFITED TO US.

FOR MORE DETAILS: LILIAN EDWARDS AND CHARLOTTE WAELDE, LAW AND THE INTERNET, EDN 3^rd: PUBLISHED BY HART PUBLISHING, PAGE NO 89-93