Laws

Here you can find the most important TREATIES and LAWS governs e-commerce under the UN, the EU, the U.S and Jordan:

Treaties

Ø  World Trade Organization (WTO)

http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/legal_e.htm

Ø  World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/

 The UN legislations:

Ø   Model Law on Electronic Commerce of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)

http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/electronic_commerce/1996Model.html

Ø   United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (UN Convention 2005)

http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/electronic_commerce/2005Convention.html

Ø   Model Law on Electronic Signatures of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL 2001)

http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/electronic_commerce/2001Model_signatures.html

The Jordanian law:

Ø  Electronic Transaction Law No. (85) of 2001 (ETL)

http://www.cbj.gov.jo/uploads/Electronic_Transactions_Law.pdf

Ø  TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW  NO. (13) OF 1995, as amended by the temporary law no.(8) of 2002

http://www.trc.gov.jo/images/stories/pdf/telecomunication%20law.pdf?lang=english

 The EU legislations:

Ø  DIRECTIVE 2000/31/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market Directive on electronic commerce (EC Directive 2000/31)

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0031:EN:HTML

Ø  The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 (EC Directive 2002)

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/made

Ø  DIRECTIVE 1999/93/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures (EC Directive 1999/93)

http://portal.etsi.org/esi/Documents/e-sign-directive.pdf

Ø  COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31993L0013:en:HTML

Ø  DIRECTIVE 97/7/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 May 1997 on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31997L0007:EN:HTML

 The US legislations:

Ø  Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/ucc.table.html

Ø  Uniform Electronic Transaction Act 1999 (UETA)

http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/archives/ulc/ecom/ueta_final.pdf

Ø  Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)

http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/archives/ulc/ucita/ucita200.htm

Ø  Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN)

http://www.fca.gov/download/public%20law%20106-229%20e-sign.pdf