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<div><span lang="EN-GB"><font>Greetings
all,</font></span></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>I would
like to introduce a new key input for your consideration and for Phase 1 of our
work. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recently <a href="http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=182286&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=909782">delivered
a judgment</a> on the applicability of data protection laws in reference to VKI v
Amazon EU Sárl (Case C-191/15). I have summarised the Court’s judgement below, as it
may have a bearing on our work when we come to consider what data should be
collected, stored, and disclosed.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>In this
case, the defendant (Amazon) was established in Luxembourg. It maintained a
website which was accessible to Austrian consumers and allowed persons in this
territory to enter into electronic sales contracts. However, Amazon has no
registered office or employees in Austria. It also did not allow consumers to
negotiate their sales contract – they could either accept it, or were asked to
exit the website. Inside this contract, the terms permitted Amazon to make use
of data supplied by consumers and stated that Luxembourg law applied, despite
the fact that the consumers themselves were not established in Luxembourg. The
claimant (VKI) applied to the Austrian court for an injunction to prohibit the
use of these terms. The Austrian Supreme Court referred the case to the CJEU.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>The CJEU held, among other things, that the fact that Amazon
does not have an office or subsidiary in Austria does not preclude it from
having an establishment there. Therefore the CJEU held that it is for the
national court to ascertain whether or not Amazon carries out the data
processing in question in the context of the activities of an establishment
situated in Austria or in Luxembourg or elsewhere. The CJEU also held that the choice of law clause in Amazon’s contract was unfair, because under the Rome I Regulation, European consumers enjoy the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law which apply in the location where <i>they</i> are established. Amazon was wrong to give consumers the impression that only the laws where Amazon is established apply.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>You can
read the entire judgement here (it is available in multiple languages, if more
convenient):</font></div><div><span lang="EN-GB"><font><a href="http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=182286&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=909782">http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=182286&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=909782</a></font></span></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>I am not a lawyer, but from my reading of this case it would appear to have some implications for domain name registrars and other parties doing business with European consumers. This would be especially true for such entities registered themselves in the European Union.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>Best
wishes,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>Ayden Férdeline</font></div>
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