Is it Necessary to (Urgently) Adopt a Community Regulation for Online Food Sales?

According to a survey carried out by Nielsen4 (2015) based on respondents with online access in 60 countries, one quarter of them indicated that they order grocery products online and more than half are willing to do that in the future. [...] The applicability of this exemption from liability will depend on the legal and factual elements related to the activity carried out by the platform in question and will be applied when the activities carried out can be qualified as services of mere transmission or storage according to the terms of the “Directive on electronic commerce”2. [...]their actuation must be strictly technical, automatic and passive. [...]to determine what is the responsibility of the platforms that are the object of this study in terms of protecting the health and economic interests of consumers, in the absence of a Lex specialis, I must make reference to Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law6. [...]prices and margins have decreased as digitization enables new business models and sales are concentrated on fewer but larger players. -