Question 5412 — overseas

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Ms. Ericka Bareigts draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy and Finance to the discrimination based on place of residence encountered by overseas residents in their purchases or consumption of goods or services on the internet. Indeed, many sites - including Google to take just one emblematic example - do not offer certain applications or services available to departments and communities. overseas although they are fully part of the national territory. Likewise, television channels, such as Bein Sports for example, do not allow the broadcast of their programs overseas, considering them to be foreign countries. These practices are not acceptable. On February 6, 2018, the European Parliament adopted a regulation putting an end to geoblocking, a discriminatory commercial process which consists of processing European consumers unequally depending on their nationality or place of residence. This major breakthrough was achieved thanks to the efforts of the French PS delegation in the European Parliament and in particular by Virginie Rozière. From now on, European citizens will have access to a wider range of products and choose from which website they wish to purchase goods and services without being blocked due to their Nationality. She asks him to confirm that these new European standards of non-discrimination within the internal market apply to trade with overseas destinations and to kindly carry out regular checks to verify the correct application of existing law.

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