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by bazzargh 3744 days ago
From the european commission itself:

What does the Commission plan to do about geo-blocking?

Addressing unjustified geo-blocking will give more choice of products and services for consumers at lower prices. The Commission is planning to make legislative proposals in the first half of 2016 to end unjustified geo-blocking. Action could include a targeted change to the e-commerce framework, and to the framework set out by Article 20 of the Services Directive (on non-discrimination of recipients of services). As a result, traders will have only limited possibilities to deny access to online services.In parallel to legislative proposals, the Commission today launched a Competition Sector Inquiry to analyse the application of competition law in this area (press release and factsheet)

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-4920_en.htm

There's lots to this behind that link, and at the digital single market site (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en) but it seems like some DSM legislation will be proposed later this year, but not all of it (since the eCommerce report isn't scheduled to be completed until 2017)