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Nowadays, we can take the European single market for granted. With old barriers gone, people, goods, services and money move around Europe as freely as within one country. However, single market is not possible just sweeping away the technical, regulatory, legal, bureaucratic, idiomatic, cultural and protectionist barriers, but it has been essential to work hardly to defend fair competition as a simple and efficient means of guaranteeing consumers a level of excellence in terms of the quality and price of products and services, and to grant consumer protection to improve the quality of life of all European citizens. In this paper, we analyse the impact of these areas EU legislation on the COTS industry, how the COTS single market is forming and what safe COTS and COTS defective mean and imply.
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Arias-Chausson, C. (2005). The Necessary Legal Approach to COTS Safety and COTS Liability in European Single Market. In: Franch, X., Port, D. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3412. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30587-3_14
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