{"id":784,"date":"2018-01-09T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T07:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&#038;p=784"},"modified":"2018-01-09T08:41:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T07:41:40","slug":"il-geo-blocking","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/il-geo-blocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Geo-blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-775\" src=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/meusac_1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6462\" height=\"3349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/meusac_1_.jpg 6462w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/meusac_1_-300x155.jpg 300w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/meusac_1_-768x398.jpg 768w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/meusac_1_-1024x531.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6462px) 100vw, 6462px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On November 29, 2017, permanent representatives of EU Member States reached an agreement with the European Parliament on a <a href=\"http:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/PDF\/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0289&amp;from=EN\">draft regulation<\/a> to ban unjustified geo-blocking.\u202fThe agreement, which still needs final adoption by the EU Council and the European Parliament, will remove barriers to e-commerce by avoiding discrimination based on customers&#8217; nationality, place of residence or place of establishment.<span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At present,\u202fonly 15% of Europeans\u202fpurchase products from online shops based in other EU countries. One of the reasons is due to &#8216;geo-blocking&#8217;. The regulation will prevent discrimination for consumers and companies on\u202faccess to prices, sales or payment conditions\u202fwhen purchasing products and services in another EU country.\u202fOnce it comes into force, the geo-blocking regulation will supplement other landmark achievements such as the\u202fend of roaming charges for people using mobile phones in the EU and the introduction of\u202fcross-border\u202fportability\u202ffor online subscriptions.\u202f<span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Services where the main feature is the provision of access to and use of copyright protected content, or the selling of copyright protected works in an intangible form, such as music streaming services, e-books, online games and software, will be excluded from the scope of the regulation.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2017\/11\/29\/geo-blocking-eu-ambassadors-confirm-agreement-on-removing-barriers-to-e-commerce\/\">here<\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On November 29, 2017, permanent representatives of EU Member States reached an agreement with the European Parliament on a draft regulation to ban unjustified geo-blocking.\u202fThe agreement, which still needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":775,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[38],"issuem_issue_categories":[14],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}