China-EU School of Law
Transforming China’s E-Commerce Law
24 October 2016, by Internetredaktion
Photo: CESL
China’s future E-Commerce Law was the focus of discussions between over 100 legal scholars, senior experts from companies and governmental authorities and law students from China and Europe on 20 October. They gathered at the BUPT Hotel in Beijing for the 2016 China-EU School of Law’s Academic Conference “E-Commerce Law Forum”. The agenda also featured a comparison to other worldwide legislative approaches on e-commerce. 25 speakers from China and Europe made suggestions about all aspects of the new law in two sessions.
“The Chinese E-Commerce Law will further clarify where demarcation lines go and it will foster innovation online,” key note speaker Ala Musi said. As a Vice Director of the Policy and Law Committee of the China E-Commerce Association, he is involved in the lawmaking process. “It is currently planned that the draft law will be ready for a first read at the National Party Congress by the end of this year. If the three readings run smoothly, the law will be enacted by the end of 2017.”