E BUSINESS LINK

2007-10-23T18:58:00.000-07:00

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A Dynamic eBusiness Environment for Europe
By enabling companies to sell to consumers and work with partners without being physically present, eBusiness is essential to helping European companies - particularly SMEs - take advantage of the Single Market, driving prices down and bringing "Europe's Best" to the world.
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eBusiness is much more than eCommerce – buying and selling on-line. Companies are increasingly using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to link together their business processes and systems:
internally: hooking departments together to provide better products and more responsive services more efficiently;
with those of their suppliers, distributors and other partners, increasing efficiencies even further;
with public authorities, reducing red tape in both public and private sectors: see the eGovernment theme;
with their customers, allowing them to respond more directly to market trends and sell worldwide.
eBusiness therefore allows new forms of partnership, and improves both the way companies work and the products and services they offer.
"the opportunities are particularly attractive in Europe"
While the resulting innovation is creating jobs and economic growth around the world, the opportunities are particularly attractive in Europe, as eBusiness allows many companies - particularly SMEs - to benefit from the Single Market for the first time.
National legal systems across Europe therefore have to take these opportunities into account, with a European approach required on issues as diverse as taxation, copyright, consumer protection and privacy - see Policies, below.
Similarly, many of the technological and organisational challenges raised by eBusiness can best be met through European cooperation - see Activities, below.
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