Critical Assessment of European Agenda for the Collaborative Economy
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15-12-2016
The research paper describes the main legal challenges for regulating the collaborative economy and evaluates the definition of, and elucidates how the existing body of EU law applies to collaborative economy business models. In the last part, the paper elaborates on how a regulatory framework for non-professional provision of services and prosumers should look like and makes a few concrete proposals for future policies. This paper was commissioned by the Policy Department A for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies upon request of the European Parliament´s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
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Guido Smorto
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- business organisation
- communications
- consumer
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- criminal law
- data collection
- digital single market
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- economic conditions
- economic growth
- economic structure
- ECONOMICS
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- electronic commerce
- entrepreneur
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- executive power and public service
- FINANCE
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- information technology
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- innovation
- LAW
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- regulatory policy
- research and intellectual property
- technology and technical regulations
- tertiary sector
- TRADE