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- directive 37
- digital_content 28
- shall 25
- digital_service 19
- article 15
- consumer 15
- means 14
- which 13
- trader 12
- apply 12
- contract 10
- supply 8
- person 8
- such 8
- point 8
- services 8
- personal_data 7
- defined 7
- contracts 7
- member 6
- this 6
- digital_services 6
- states 6
- digital 6
- service 6
- used 5
- european 5
- elements 5
- provided 5
- from 5
- goods 5
- including 5
- they 5
- software 5
- provision 5
- covered 5
- purpose 4
- union 4
- than 4
- data 4
- whether 4
- //ec 4
- same 4
- without 4
- prejudice 4
- bundle 4
- accordance 4
- purposes 4
- undertakes 4
- parliament 4
Article 2
Definitions
For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply:
| (1) | ‘ digital_content’ means data which are produced and supplied in digital form; |
| (2) | ‘ digital_service’ means:
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| (3) | ‘ goods_with_digital_elements’ means any tangible movable items that incorporate, or are inter-connected with, digital_content or a digital_service in such a way that the absence of that digital_content or digital_service would prevent the goods from performing their functions; |
| (4) | ‘ integration’ means the linking and incorporation of digital_content or a digital_service with the components of the consumer's digital_environment in order for the digital_content or digital_service to be used in accordance with the requirements for conformity provided for by this Directive; |
| (5) | ‘ trader’ means any natural or legal person, irrespective of whether privately or publicly owned, that is acting, including through any other person acting in that natural or legal person's name or on that person's behalf, for purposes relating to that person's trade, business, craft, or profession, in relation to contracts covered by this Directive; |
| (6) | ‘ consumer’ means any natural person who, in relation to contracts covered by this Directive, is acting for purposes which are outside that person's trade, business, craft, or profession; |
| (7) | ‘ price’ means money or a digital representation of value that is due in exchange for the supply of digital_content or a digital_service; |
| (8) | ‘ personal_data’ means personal_data as defined in point (1) of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679; |
| (9) | ‘ digital_environment’ means hardware, software and any network connection used by the consumer to access or make use of digital_content or a digital_service; |
| (10) | ‘ compatibility’ means the ability of the digital_content or digital_service to function with hardware or software with which digital_content or digital_services of the same type are normally used, without the need to convert the digital_content or digital_service; |
| (11) | ‘ functionality’ means the ability of the digital_content or digital_service to perform its functions having regard to its purpose; |
| (12) | ‘ interoperability’ means the ability of the digital_content or digital_service to function with hardware or software different from those with which digital_content or digital_services of the same type are normally used; |
| (13) | ‘ durable_medium’ means any instrument which enables the consumer or the trader to store information addressed personally to that person in a way that is accessible for future reference, for a period of time adequate for the purposes of the information and which allows the unchanged reproduction of the information stored. |
Article 3
Scope
1. This Directive shall apply to any contract where the trader supplies or undertakes to supply digital_content or a digital_service to the consumer and the consumer pays or undertakes to pay a price.
This Directive shall also apply where the trader supplies or undertakes to supply digital_content or a digital_service to the consumer, and the consumer provides or undertakes to provide personal_data to the trader, except where the personal_data provided by the consumer are exclusively processed by the trader for the purpose of supplying the digital_content or digital_service in accordance with this Directive or for allowing the trader to comply with legal requirements to which the trader is subject, and the trader does not process those data for any other purpose.
2. This Directive shall also apply where the digital_content or digital_service is developed in accordance with the consumer's specifications.
3. With the exception of Articles 5 and 13, this Directive shall also apply to any tangible medium which serves exclusively as a carrier of digital_content.
4. This Directive shall not apply to digital_content or digital_services which are incorporated in or inter-connected with goods within the meaning of point (3) of Article 2, and which are provided with the goods under a sales contract concerning those goods, irrespective of whether such digital_content or digital_service is supplied by the seller or by a third party. In the event of doubt as to whether the supply of incorporated or inter-connected digital_content or an incorporated or inter-connected digital_service forms part of the sales contract, the digital_content or digital_service shall be presumed to be covered by the sales contract.
5. This Directive shall not apply to contracts regarding:
| (a) | the provision of services other than digital_services, regardless of whether digital forms or means are used by the trader to produce the output of the service or to deliver or transmit it to the consumer; |
| (b) | electronic communications services as defined in point (4) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972, with the exception of number-independent interpersonal communications services as defined in point (7) of Article 2 of that Directive; |
| (c) | healthcare as defined in point (a) of Article 3 of Directive 2011/24/EU; |
| (d) | gambling services, namely, services that involve wagering a stake with pecuniary value in games of chance, including those with an element of skill, such as lotteries, casino games, poker games and betting transactions, by electronic means or any other technology for facilitating communication and at the individual request of a recipient of such services; |
| (e) | financial services as defined in point (b) of Article 2 of Directive 2002/65/EC; |
| (f) | software offered by the trader under a free and open-source licence, where the consumer does not pay a price and the personal_data provided by the consumer are exclusively processed by the trader for the purpose of improving the security, compatibility or interoperability of that specific software; |
| (g) | the supply of digital_content where the digital_content is made available to the general public other than by signal transmission as a part of a performance or event, such as digital cinematographic projections; |
| (h) | digital_content provided in accordance with Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (21) by public sector bodies of the Member States. |
6. Without prejudice to paragraph 4 of this Article, where a single contract between the same trader and the same consumer includes in a bundle elements of supply of digital_content or a digital_service and elements of the provision of other services or goods, this Directive shall only apply to the elements of the contract concerning the digital_content or digital_service.
Article 19 of this Directive shall not apply where a bundle within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 includes elements of an internet access service as defined in point (2) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 of the European Parliament and of the Council (22) or a number-based interpersonal communications service as defined in point (6) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972.
Without prejudice to Article 107(2) of Directive (EU) 2018/1972, the effects that the termination of one element of a bundle contract may have on the other elements of the bundle contract shall be governed by national law.
7. If any provision of this Directive conflicts with a provision of another Union act governing a specific sector or subject matter, the provision of that other Union act shall take precedence over this Directive.
8. Union law on the protection of personal_data shall apply to any personal_data processed in connection with contracts referred to in paragraph 1.
In particular, this Directive shall be without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Directive 2002/58/EC. In the event of conflict between the provisions of this Directive and Union law on the protection of personal_data, the latter prevails.
9. This Directive shall be without prejudice to Union and national law on copyright and related rights, including Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (23).
10. This Directive shall not affect the freedom of Member States to regulate aspects of general contract law, such as rules on the formation, validity, nullity or effects of contracts, including the consequences of the termination of a contract in so far as they are not regulated in this Directive, or the right to damages.
Article 24
Transposition
1. By 1 July 2021 Member States shall adopt and publish the measures necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.
They shall apply those measures from 1 January 2022.
When Member States adopt those measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be laid down by Member States.
Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
2. The provisions of this Directive shall apply to the supply of digital_content or digital_services which occurs from 1 January 2022 with the exception of Articles 19 and 20 of this Directive which shall only apply to contracts concluded from that date.
Article 25
Review
The Commission shall, not later than 12 June 2024 review the application of this Directive and submit a report to the European Parliament, to the Council and to the European Economic and Social Committee. The report shall examine, inter alia, the case for harmonisation of rules applicable to contracts for the supply of digital_content or digital_services other than that covered by this Directive, including supplied against advertisements.
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