DSM Watch has been tracking this, the first legislative proposal published by the Commission under the Digital Single Market strategy banner, since back in December 2015. The Commission’s aim was to allow consumers who pay for online content services in their home country to access them when visiting another country within the EU.
In our 10 February 2017 blog we looked at the Commission’s approach to the tricky question of what being “temporarily” in another EU Member State would mean, and how that could be verified. Since then, that and other knotty issues around the proposal have been hashed out between the Commission, the EU Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers (Council), with negotiations culminating a few days ago with the adoption by the Council of a draft proposed by the Parliament on 18 May.
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