EU Bans Unjustified Online Geo-Blocking

On 2 March 2018,  the Geo-blocking Regulation was published in the Official Journal (Regulation (EU) 2018/302 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 February 2018 on addressing unjustified geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers' nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal market).

The Geo-blocking Regulation prevents the blocking of consumers from accessing commercial websites from a EU member state other than the one of their nationality or place of residence, enabling them to choose the website from which they wish to buy goods or services without being blocked or automatically re-routed to another website.