China’s New Ecommerce Law; What this will mean for Consumers, Operators and Providers; German Ticker 01/2017

China’s new Ecommerce law, which is in progress, shall regulate the relationship between consumers, platform operators as well as online providers in the field of Ecommerce.

As the Ecommerce market is constantly changing and undoubtedly its major impact on social life and the current economy cannot be denied, it seems to be necessary to provide a legal framework to give answers to upcoming questions within the scope of Ecommerce.

Hence a new Ecommerce law is in progress and drafts are waiting to be adopted. The new law shall remedy the current situation by promoting the Ecommerce market’s development, putting things straight and satisfying all the parties’ interests. These central ideas are laid out in Article 1 of the recent draft law and shall summarize simultaneously the political objectives pursued by this law.

The full article you can find in the German Ticker the magazine of the German Chamber of Commerce in China (AHK). Ticker is a free bi-monthly business and entertainment magazine published by the German Chamber of Commerce in Mainland China. It is also available for iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices.

download it here: http://china.ahk.de/news/single-view/artikel/01-2017-big-data-e-society/?cHash=7a13b2bb2cc0826a46d708a0dbd30a62

You can find the article also on the website of "Your IP Insider". Your IP Insider is the blog of the China and ASEAN IPR SME Helpdesks, two projects co-funded by the European Commission, which provide free information and services for European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to both protect and enforce their intellectual property rights (IPR) in China and Southeast Asia respectively. Through contributions from experts within the field and the project team members, Your IP Insiderdiscusses IPR developments in China and Southeast-Asia, and how these affect European companies. We provide practical information on how you can develop your business’ IP strategy with simple, cost-effective measures.

You will find our article here : http://www.youripinsider.eu/chinas-ecommerce-law-consumers-operators-providers/