Traduction de «off-line ups » (Anglais → Français) :

1. facilitating appropriate on-line content and services, accessible according to demand profiles, understandable and affordable for all people, and backed up by regular user-friendliness checks, including for the disabled and others with special needs and, in particular, targeted on-line services in areas such as social protection, employment, education and training, health, housing, and justice, while continuing, as appropriate, complementary off-line access to basic public services;

This new potential is not merely for on-line services. For example, companies may learn about new suppliers or new market opportunities on-line, but the actual business conducted may also be off-line.

(18) Information society services span a wide range of economic activities which take place on-line; these activities can, in particular, consist of selling goods on-line; activities such as the delivery of goods as such or the provision of services off-line are not covered; information society services are not solely restricted to services giving rise to on-line contracting but also, in so far as they represent an economic activity, extend to services which are not remunerated by those who receive them, such as those offering on-line information or commercial communications, or those providing tools allowing for search, access and re ...[+++]trieval of data; information society services also include services consisting of the transmission of information via a communication network, in providing access to a communication network or in hosting information provided by a recipient of the service; television broadcasting within the meaning of Directive EEC/89/552 and radio broadcasting are not information society services because they are not provided at individual request; by contrast, services which are transmitted point to point, such as video-on-demand or the provision of commercial communications by electronic mail are information society services; the use of electronic mail or equivalent individual communications for instance by natural persons acting outside their trade, business or profession including their use for the conclusion of contracts between such persons is not an information society service; the contractual relationship between an employee and his employer is not an information society service; activities which by their very nature cannot be carried out at a distance and by electronic means, such as the statutory auditing of company accounts or medical advice requiring the physical examination of a patient are not information society services.

All categories of retail financial services (on-line and off-line) are covered in order not to block the expansion of e-commerce or the efficient development of cross-border services.

As a principle, the legal frameworks of the off-line world will be applied to the on-line world.

With the advent of the Information Society, the protection of databases takes on added importance, as most services will be provided from an electronic database available on-line or off-line (CD-ROM, CD-i, etc).