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posted by janrinok on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the obvious dept.

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”.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Thursday April 12 2018, @04:17PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday April 12 2018, @04:17PM (#665997)

    > fairly new idea

    You need more coffee.
    Tribal councils, nobles or kings, settling disputes between two parties is at least a couple orders of magnitude older than the USA.The fact that they settle them based on expected (non-written) standards for a job is a given, and having people pay taxes for the infrastructure that supports the people who aren't producing food or goods because they spend their time overseeing others is older than the pyramids. Your ability to compete with others was long restricted by your skills (did daddy do that job?), the cost of entry, and your knack at dealing with both customers and whatever authority didn't want to be disturbed by the consequences of shoddy work.
    The only (maybe) recent thing is that every transaction is individually taxed.

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