Summary
What this law does
Transposes the Electronic Commerce Directive into UK law, setting information and transparency requirements, electronic contracting disclosures, input-error correction and order acknowledgment duties, and conditional liability exemptions for intermediary conduit, caching, and hosting service providers.
Why it matters to Signicat and its customers
No Signicat-specific relevance narrative is stored for this instrument; the stored applicability is shown below.
Who is bound: service provider; person providing an information society service
- Commerce
- Mandates pre-contractual disclosures, accessible storable terms, and electronic order receipt confirmations for online commercial sales.
- Energy Utility Telco
- Establishes intermediary liability protections for mere conduit, caching, and hosting activities across electronic communications networks.
- Services
- Imposes online transparency, identification, and electronic contract formation duties on commercial and professional service providers.
- Media Entertainment
- Conditions caching and hosting intermediary liability exemptions on lack of actual unlawful knowledge or expeditious take-down.