division_name: Exiting the European Union (Consumer Protection)
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b976.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That the draft Geo-Blocking Regulation (Revocation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-14">14 March</phrase>, be approved.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b978.4/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if we did not revoke the Geo-Blocking Regulation, UK traders would continue to have obligations to EU customers under the Regulation while UK customers are unlikely to receive any of its benefits.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b978.4/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;To avoid this asymmetry of enforcement obligations in the EU&#8217;s favour, we are revoking the&#8230;Regulation in the UK.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b978.4/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Firms and communities across the UK are not ready for this outcome. The shock to our economy would be felt by generations to come&#8230;avoiding no deal is paramount.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b982.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if we did not revoke the Geo-Blocking Regulation, UK traders would continue to have obligations to EU customers under the Regulation while UK customers are unlikely to receive any of its benefits.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b982.6/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;UK civil and commercial judgments would no longer be automatically enforced in EU member&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b989.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;prohibits discrimination based on customers&#8217; nationality, place of residence or place of establishment, including unjustified geo-blocking, in certain cross-border transactions between a trader  and a customer in relation to the sales of goods and the provision of services within the EU. In particular, it provides for the following measures protecting customers: ban of discriminatory blocking or limiting customers' access to traders&#8217; online interfaces (e.g. a website) and redirecting them to another online interface without the customer&#8217;s prior consent&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b989.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">traders to apply, in certain defined situations, on a discriminatory basis different conditions of access for customers to goods and services&#8230;informally known as &#8216;shop like a local&#8217;&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b989.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;non-discrimination for reasons related to payment. As of the withdrawal date, natural persons residing in the United Kingdom (unless they have a nationality of a Member State) or undertakings established in the United Kingdom will not be able to benefit from Regulation (EU) 2018/302&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b989.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;such persons or undertakings who wish to access websites in the EU will not benefit from the aforementioned ban related to access to traders&#8217; online interfaces. This means that a trader could block, limit or redirect those customers to specific versions of his/her website which might be different from the one that the customers initially sought to access.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b989.0/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;such persons or undertakings will not have the guarantee to be able to &#8216;shop like a local&#8217; in the EU in the situations covered by Article 4 of the Regulation, including benefitting from the same prices and conditions relating to the delivery of goods and services as the locals (i.e. the customers of the trader's home Member State). For example, the off-line and on-line sales of goods and services, such as goods delivered or picked up in the EU territory, tickets for sports events or amusement parks in Member States, and the sale of electronically supplied services, such as hosting services, are areas where those customers will be affected&#8230;such persons or undertakings using payment means from the United Kingdom will not be protected against traders applying different conditions for a payment transaction from the ones offered to EU customers, or refused to complete the purchase for reasons related to payment, when (wanting to) pay electronically for goods or services.&#8221;</p>