eBusiness is much more than eCommerce – buying and selling
on-line. Companies are increasingly using Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) to link together their business processes and
systems:
eBusiness therefore allows new forms of partnership, and improves
both the way companies work and the products and services they offer.
National legal systems across Europe therefore have to take these
opportunities into account, with a European approach required on issues
as diverse as taxation, copyright, consumer protection and privacy
- see Policies, below.
i2010: the
Single European Information Space
pillar of i2010 aims to create a
modern, market-oriented regulatory framework for the digital
economy:
the EU's .eu domain allows everyone to have a
European identity online - useful to businesses wanting to
operate across the Single Market without setting up multiple
websites