(28)In accordance with Article 15(1) of Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 14 , providers of online marketplaces should not be required to verify the legal status of third-party suppliers. Instead, providers of online marketplaces should require third-party suppliers on the online marketplace to indicate their status as traders or non-traders for the purposes of consumer protection law and to provide this information to the provider of online marketplace.
Recital 28
- 14 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’) ( OJ L 178, 17.7.2000, p. 1 ). ↩