Eddie's Snowboards is an Austrian snowboard company that wants to expand its international sales through e-commerce but faces high costs of complying with different sales laws in each of the 27 EU member states. The European Commission proposes a Common European Sales Law that would be optional for cross-border sales, replace 26 national sales laws with one single law, lower costs for businesses, and maintain a high level of consumer protection. The Common European Sales Law would allow Eddie's Snowboards to offer national sales under Austrian law and cross-border sales under the single, common European sales law.

2. http://eddiessnowboards.eu
is a small snowboard
business based in Austria.
Eddies aims to expand its
international sales using
internet selling.

3. internet selling in the European
Single Market:
Access to 500 million customers
in 27 countries

4. But there is one
big problem…

5. 27 different member states =
27 different national sales laws

6. Small traders are discouraged by the
costs of online cross-border trade
€10.000 per additional country
-for research and legal advice:
adapting legal terms & conditions
€3.000 per additional country
-for adapting web platform

7. To open up the single market,
the European Commission proposes
A COMMON EUROPEAN
SALES LAW

8. A COMMON EUROPEAN
SALES LAW…
-entirely optional
-only applies to cross-border sales
-One law replaces 26 national laws
-saves costs of for business
-Provides high level of consumer protection

9. HOW DOES IT WORK IN
PRACTICE?

10. Eddie’s Snowboards offers
national sales under Austrian
national law
cross-border sales under the
Common European Sales Law

11. Cross-border sales
we offer you the option of purchasing
under the terms and condidions of the
Common European Sales Law