E-commerce Toolbox
Summary
The E-commerce Toolbox combines customs, product-safety, consumer, digital and market-surveillance measures for online retail. It calls for progress on customs reform and proposes controls on imports shipped directly to consumers, coordinated enforcement and safety actions. The Commission also plans action on product passports, interoperable enforcement databases, web crawlers, marketplace cooperation, consumer awareness, professional training, cooperation with countries of origin and investigation of possible dumping or illegal subsidisation.
Action items
1–6 of 23 items
Source order · D = digital dimension- Item 1
Calls on the co-legislator to swiftly adopt the Customs Reform proposal, and is ready to work with the co-legislator to explorefurther measures to help address the costs of supervising the overwhelming volumes of small consignments, in particular through a new non-discriminatory handling fee on e-commerce items.
- Item 2
Plans to adopt the first action plan under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation by April 2025.
- Item 3
Calls on the co-legislator to swiftly adopt the targeted amendment to the Waste Framework Directive. The Commission will work closely with the Member States for a more effective enforcement of this Directive, the Single Use Plastics Directive, the Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment Directive and the Regulations on Ecodesign for Sustainable Products, on Packaging and Packaging Waste and on Batteries vis-à-vis third- country e-commerce retailers.
- Item 4
Plans to propose a Circular Economy Act which will explore to further develop Extended Producer Responsibility and how to strengthen enforcement.
- Item 5
Proposes a priority control area (PCA) on e-commerce imports shipped directly to consumers, with the cooperation of market surveillance authorities, and a medium-term objective to feed the coordinated application of a wider set of rules, including digital regulation. The Commission calls on Member States’ participation and will release a public report on the lessons learned and findings.
- Item 6
Supports a new Coordinated Activity on the Safety of Products and other market surveillance joint actions focused on product safety in e-commerce and calls on the Member States to actively participate.