Services provided by Uber for connecting non-professional drivers with users who’ve subscribed to the Uber website for urban travel, must be seen as transport services within the meaning of European Union law rather than information society services.
Such services are excluded from the scope of the free provision of services and the services directive’ (2006/123/EC) and the e-commerce directive (2000/31/EC) and can therefore be regulated by the member states, which can subject them to...