The Electronic Commerce Act is about to come into effect on January 1, 2019.
This law defines the obligations and responsibilities of e-commerce operators in the areas of product quality and safety, intellectual property rights, consumer rights and personal information protection, and severely punishes all kinds of illegal acts that harm the rights and interests of consumers. Last week, a survey of 1993 respondents by a joint questionnaire network of the Social Survey Center of the China Youth newspaper showed that 84.5% of the respondents were concerned about the e-Commerce Act and 58.3% of the respondents were confident that the e-commerce Act would help solve the mess of e-business platforms.
For the e-commerce law, 60.8% of the respondents were concerned that they should not ' brush praise ', ' Cut the Difference review ', and 64.2% of the respondents expected the e-commerce law to introduce supporting laws and regulations as soon as possible.
84.5% respondents focused on e-commerce law
Huawei Group programmer Chen Hua has some knowledge of the e-commerce law, ' now everyone who is not looking for a purchase on the Internet? "E-commerce Law" reduces the profit of purchasing, if they raise prices, they will lose the price advantage '.
Shangliang, an independent analyst in the telecommunications industry, said there had been a lack of regulation in the area of e-commerce, the need to strengthen relevant laws and regulations, and legislation on electronic commerce had actually been being called for.
According to the survey, 84.5% per cent of respondents were concerned about the e-commerce Act and 15.5% per cent were not concerned.
Li Jiangyu, deputy director of the e-Commerce Research Center at Beijing Normal University, said annual e-business holiday promotions can cause a lot of problems, such as fake goods, long delivery times, fraud and so on, and consumer rights are difficult, such as difficult to find applicable laws, search for evidence is also difficult. In the survey, 62.9% of respondents pointed out that there was a phenomenon of ' brush sales ' and "cut reviews" in the field of e-commerce. Other images include false publicity (65%), ' Big Data Killing ' (47.9%), bundled tie-ins (37.9%), micro-business irregularities (35.7%), illegal use of deposits (29.1%), disclosure of personal information (38.9%), complaints about difficulties in defending rights (30.6%) and platform shirking responsibility (
22.8%) and so on. ' Buying and shouting prices, earning large profits this phenomenon is quite serious, many goods in foreign purchase prices are more than half cheaper than domestic, purchase to earn a lot of profits.
' Chen Hua pointed out. Shangliang analysis, e-commerce will be the traditional flow of information logistics have been broken, ' such as the traditional purchase of furniture to go to furniture stores, there is a problem to go to furniture stores.
Through e-commerce on both sides are not seen, product quality problems how to return goods, etc., need to be resolved '.
Li Jiangyu pointed out that e-commerce in the development process of continuous change of the original business model, the need for special legislation, China's introduction of this law is a very bold innovation.
In the survey, 58.3% per cent of respondents were confident that the e-commerce Act would help address the mess of e-business platforms, while 15.6% per cent admitted that they did not have much confidence and 26.1% per cent said they were not good enough to say. The introduction of the Electronic Commerce Law regulates some of the problems that are obvious to all, mainly the old problems. ' Li Jiangyu said, ' It used to be self-conscious, and now it has become a legal compulsion, and it has a very large binding on the business behavior of enterprises. If consumers are treated unfairly, there will be legal support.
The government wants to manage it as well. ' Wang Xiang (pseudonym), a graduate student in law at a university in Beijing, believes that the introduction of the electronic Commerce Law is a benchmark that clarifies the responsibilities of the relevant institutions and relevant departments.
For example, privacy issues, if there are illegal e-commerce operators, can be punished according to law '.
Shangliang said that the introduction of the e-commerce law can make the business behavior under the electronic Commerce environment more standardized, the customer's data get more protection, and promote the e-commerce platform to deal with the problem from a global perspective.
64.2% respondents expect e-commerce law to introduce supporting regulations as soon as possible
Chen Hua believes that the introduction of the electronic commerce Law, can standardize the purchasing industry, so that participants meet the obligation to pay taxes and taxes, but also to some extent to break the monopoly of the purchasing market. Among the provisions of the Electronic Commerce Law, 60.8% of the interviewees were concerned about the requirement not to ' brush the praise ', 49.2% of the respondents were concerned about the requirement of user consent, and 47.9% of the respondents were concerned about the provisions defining the responsibility of the platform audit. Others include the inclusion of the micro-business model in the regulatory scope (43.9%), the identification of the platform responsibility of self-employed goods (39.5%), the protection of users ' right to freely inquire, correct, delete and cancel personal information (33.9%), the regulation of e-commerce tie-in Behavior (32.1%), regulatory e-commerce promotion ' two choose one ' phenomenon
), strengthen intellectual property protection (23%) and online stores need to pay taxes according to law (18.9%) and so on. Shangliang to reporters, the annual e-commerce sales are very large, there are relevant legislation, government departments and related agencies need to consider the difficulty of implementation.
For example, stores, sellers, courier companies in different provinces, how to supervise, by which place of the business sector, law enforcement departments to deal with, need to be further clarified '. With regard to the Electronic Commerce Act, 64.2% per cent of respondents looked forward to the introduction of accompanying regulations and regulations as soon as possible, 65.9% per cent looked forward to studying the relevant judicial explanations as soon as possible, 58.9% per cent of respondents felt that care should be taken to maintain the openness of the definition and to accommodate emerging business models, and 39.8% per cent looked forward to strengthening law enforcement
Effectively safeguard the rights and interests of consumers. Wang Xiang believes that the implementation of e-commerce law is the most important thing to implement into practice, after all, any law in the implementation process will face a lot of unexpected problems, so only from the details of the improvement, it is possible to effectively implement.
and e-commerce also has a lot of grey areas, previously there is no clear definition of the area, such as how much money needs to pay taxes, how to define the difference between tourism and purchasing, etc., need to be perfected '. In fact, these problems are also involved in the original management, and now through the law has been clearly defined, I hope it can be put into practice, do not leave a hole.
' Li Jiangyu said.