Manuel F.
Adrienne Huesca heads our California office to help guide businesses as they expand into the EU market. Adrienne serves as strategic advisor to acquisition teams, investors, entrepreneurs from her base in San Francisco.
What do businesses need to do to sell goods, software or technological services in the EU?
VAT
While the following is a simplification of the VAT rules, they generally apply:
Website compliance
Data protection: Any time you receive and store personal data about people, whether they are clients or not, you must comply with your country's laws on data protection. This means that any contact form on your website is an issue for compliance. If you save client data to a database, then where and how this database is saved and stored are also guided by regulations.
Can a single website fulfill compliance issues in the whole EU? Normally, the EU passes directives, which serves as a minimum requirement as countries then pass their own regulations. Usually with certain procedures in place, you can fulfill the regulations of all the countries of the EU.
Industry compliance
Read our compliance page to find out more about general compliance issues in Spain, as well as issues specific to your industry.
FAQs:
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