The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the draft law on e-commerce
The main innovation is the recognition in law of electronic transactions, it will have the same legal and financial implications, as well as other types of transactions. Today members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the draft law, which specializes in e-commerce market. The law will regulate the turnover of electronic money and online trading. The bill is still to be finalized with the wishes of market participants, and then he will vote in the second reading. H5>
On словам author of the bill Belkova (ex-managing partner EastLabs), this законопроект not that regulates relations in the market, as is catching up with what the market has reached himself. In Ukraine, about 17 million people annually make purchases on the internet, whether it's services or products. The volume of e-commerce is about $ 2 billion a year, but in reality this figure could be many times more, the MP said. More dynamic development of the market hampered by the fact that the state does not recognize electronic transactions as written.
The bill describes the principles of operation of the online market, the duties and rights of buyers and sellers, differentiated responsibility sellers of goods and "service providers intermediate character" - Internet and web hosting providers, domain name registrars, and so on. At the legislative level are fixed terms such as "e-commerce", "electronic goods", "e-commerce", "online store", and "Electronic Transactions».
A separate law regulating the online market, will allow one site easier to engage in dialogue with the tax or deal in the courts because At the moment, only regulated by the Civil Code. This will greatly simplify life for all private owners of the market - both sellers and buyers. When the law is finally adopted, all transactions on the network will be using a "single identity" - alphanumeric code that is sent to the buyer at any convenient communication channel. This identifier is used to verify the transaction. This bill is part of a program Innovative Ukraine , the following steps should be to simplify the licensing of electronic money, logistics development, the opening of customs -litsenzionnyh warehouses on the territory of Ukraine for key international vendors.
