20.The broad aim of the Act, facilitating electronic commerce, is similar to that of the EU E-Commerce Directive, which seeks to remove barriers to the development of electronic commerce in the internal market, but there is no overlap in the detailed provisions. The main areas addressed in the Directive are simplifying and clarifying rules of establishment, ensuring consistency in approaches to commercial communications, ensuring legal validity of electronic contracts and limiting the liability of intermediary service providers. The Directive was adopted on 4 May 2000 and will appear in the Official Journal in due course. Further information on this Directive is available from the DTI website at www.dti.gov.uk/cii/ecomdirective/index.htm.
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