Sales Law 4.0

Digitalization is advancing at an ever faster pace and slowly but surely the German legislator is following suit. The latest German digitization efforts by law have their classic origins in two European directives (EU 2019/770 “Digital Content Directive”, EU 2019/771 “Consumer Goods Directive”) and will properly turn German sales law in the German Civil Code (“Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – BGB”) upside down in general and with regard to digital products.