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The ruling (PDF), issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union this morning, will increase pressure on the not-a-taxi biz, and follows a decision that saw its services classed as transport, not digital.
The case relates to charges French authorities want to bring against UberPop - a ride-sharing service that links non-professional, unlicensed drivers with people in need of a lift - and whether it is an information society service. Uber France is trying to slip out of the regulatory net by arguing it is an information society service, which would mean it fell under rules set out in an EU directive on technical standards and regulations. This directive (PDF) stated that member states have to tell the European Commission about any draft rules or legislation that set out technical regulations of information services or products - the idea being to allow Brussels to ensure national laws comply with digital single market rules.
The French authorities didn’t do this for the criminal legislation they are trying to use to charge Uber, and so, as the ECJ noted in its judgement “Uber France infers from this that it cannot therefore be prosecuted on the charges”.
However, the ECJ was not persuaded. It reminded Uber it had last year ruled that the UberPop service offered in Spain was a transport service - not a digital one. The two countries’ services, in the court's view, are “essentially identical”.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:48AM (2 children)
They will also want to check drivers of all cars that they are going to come close to during the trip.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:56AM (1 child)
For the later, prevention (to a point) and mitigation strategies for those kind of risks are already in place in civilized countries, as a service provided by the local (traffic) police.
Try behaving erratically on a public road and you'll know what I mean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @07:58AM
Over here, the politicians are so fixated on teaching drivers that speeding is the cause of every accident that they are convincing more and more people that as long as you stay under the speed limit, you can pretty much ignore traffic regulations. And the police are of course doing a pretty good job to deliver the message.
Run a stop sign? The other person was 2 MPH over the speed limit, so he's at fault for the accident.
Heck, I've seen people so convinced of speeding being the cause of everything that they blame speeding for accidents caused by drunk driving.