Internacional: Legislative requirements for electronic transactions.

Electronic commerce raises issues at the hart of traditional regulations, practices and procedures resulting from legal requirements applicable to the form and evidence of legal acts in the context of domestic and international commercial transactions.

Developing countries’ legal framework on electronic commerce lacks of internationally acceptable rules and guidelines for the recognition of online contracts and digital signatures, of technical assistance to adapt national laws to the new trade avenue, and causes problems when applying traditional principles on jurisdiction and conflict of law rules in an electronic environment.(1)

Due to this phenomenon and its impact on commercial transactions, new laws will have to be added, and old laws will have to evolve to conform with the specific demands of the new media. The legal framework shall address the different factors associated with using Information and Communication Technology platform for a transaction to be legally valid. Areas that involve legal issues relevant to electronic commerce include: Copyright, Privacy and Consumers Protection, liability of intermediaries, Applicable Law, Jurisdiction, Dispute Resolution, etc. These are some of the topics to be developed during this presentation.

ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS. On-line transactions are a source of revenues but the following obstacles are restricting the possibility of concluding online contracts across frontiers: first, the...

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