59. Considers that the restriction of EU businesses’ access to digital markets and online consumers through, among other things, mass state censorship or restricted market access for European online service providers in third countries constitutes a trade barrier; calls on the Commission and the Council to include a safeguard mechanism in all future trade agreements, especially those which contain provisions affecting online services and online communities of users who share information, in order to ensure that EU ICT companies are not required by third parties to restrict website access, remove user-generated content or provide persona ...[+++]l information, such as personal IP addresses, in ways that contravene fundamental rights and freedoms; calls, additionally, on the Council and the Commission to develop a strategy for challenging measures by third countries which restrict EU companies’ access to global online markets;

Some eGovernment related actions: supports seamless cross-border eGovernment services in the single market (84), Member States (MS) to make eGovernment services fully interoperable (89), MS to ensure that Points of Single Contact function as fully fledged eGovernment centres (90), MS to agree a common list of key cross-border public services (91), foster EU-wide standards, interoperability testing and certification of eHealth (77), proposes a recommendation to define a minimum common set of patient data (76), a Parliament and Council Decision on mutual recognition of eID (83), implement cross-border eEnvironment services (86), white pape ...[+++]r on inter-connecting eProcurement capacity in EU (87), propose legislation on ICT interoperability (21), provide guidance on ICT standardisation and public procurement (23).

Y. whereas different copyright levying systems across Member States need to be simplified and clarified so that it is easier for online goods and services providers to make products and services available to consumers of different Member States; .whereas this review of copyright levying systems would give online goods and services providers greater legal certainty in offering products and services to consumers; whereas it is crucial to ensure a high level of consumer protection to promote trust in online goods and services, ensuring that the online marketplace respects trading practices; whereas there remain a number of severe struct ...[+++]ural and regulatory barriers to a fully functioning European internal e-commerce market, such as the fragmentation along national lines of consumer protection rules and rules on VAT, recycling fees and levies, and the abuse of rules governing exclusive and selective distribution agreements,

(a) ‘organic production’ means the use of organic production methods on the farm holding, as well as activities involved in the further processing, conditioning, packaging, storage and labelling of a product, in compliance with the objectives, principles and rules established in this Regulation;

Ms. Dubé: What is interesting about on-line shopping — we measure this every month — is that $250 million leaves Quebec every month to buy items in the United States since businesses in Quebec have not really switched to on-line sales.

Senator Losier-Cool: Is the same true for on-line shopping?