IMPLEMENTATION OF THE E-COMMERCE DIRECTIVE

The statutory instruments implementing the E-Commerce Directive in Financial Services  have now been made and will come into force on 21 August.  These are:

• SI 2002 No.1775 The Electronic Commerce Directive (Financial Services and Markets) Regulations 2002;
• SI 2002 No.1776 The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2002;
• SI 2002 No.2015 The Electronic Commerce Directive (Financial Services and Markets) (Amendment) Regulations 2002;
• SI 2002 No.2157 The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) (Electronic Commerce Directive) Order 2002.

They are accompanied by an Explanatory Memorandum, a Regulatory Impact Assessment, a Transposition Note and a response to the public consultations of December 2001 and March 2002. 

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Internal links

• Explanatory Memorandum
• Implementation of the E-Commerce Directive in Financial Services: A Second Consultation document, March 2002
• Implementation of the E-Commerce Directive: Response to Second Consultation, July 2002
• Implementation of the E-Commerce Directive in Financial Services: A First Consultation Document, December 2001

External links

• Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000

The following documents are available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website.

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Media links

• PDF file of the Implemenation of the E-Commerce Directive: Regulatory Impact Assessment
• PDF file of the Implementation of the E-Commerce Directive Consultation: Transposition Note
• PDF file of the Financial Services and Markets Act (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) (Electronic Commerce Directive) Order 2002
• PDF file of the Electronic Commerce Directive (Financial Services and Markets) Regulations 2002
• PDF file of the Electronic Communications: The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2002
• PDF file of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000: The Electronic Commerce Directive (Financial Services and Markets) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

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