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A court has loosened French transportation regulations by overturning a ban on a key feature used by the Uber ridesharing app:
Car-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc. won a loosening of France's strict transport rules Wednesday when a court overturned a decree banning car services from showing the locations of available vehicles, a well-known feature of Uber's app.
France's Conseil d'Etat, the country's highest administrative court, struck down the part of a government decree that banned the showing of locations of available cars. The court said providing the locations represents an "information society service." Under European Union law, countries must notify the EU before regulating such services.
Two Uber managers were arrested in Paris back in June.
Previously: French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber
Uber Leaves France
(Score: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Thursday March 10 2016, @09:49PM
"The Regulations refer to an "information society service". This is defined as "any service normally provided for remuneration at a distance, by means of electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data, at the individual request of a recipient of the service".
This covers more than just e-commerce businesses. In 2002, the UK's Department of Trade and Industry (which became the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in 2009) said that, in its view, it is not restricted to buying and selling online."
http://www.out-law.com/page-431 [out-law.com]
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32000L0031 [europa.eu] (see paragraph 17)
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