Benelux wants unified eCommerce market

The Prime Ministers from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg have signed a digital declaration, signaling their intent on creating a unified eCommerce market across the three nations.

Supervise together

With this declaration, the three countries have jumped ahead of the other countries in the European Union: the plan for a unified European online market has been around since last year, but the Benelux intends to become an example for other countries.

Thanks to the declaration, initiatives should be launched to reform the rules regarding package services or the search for ways to supervise the online market together. This should help spot fraud more easily.

Later on, all the initiatives will be presented to other European countries and those can – at increased speed – take full advantage of a digital market, with a minimum of obstacles, according to online trade paper Twinkle.