(1) The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 [2000 c. 8.] is amended as follows.
(2) In section 417 -
(a) after the definition of "documents", insert -
""electronic commerce directive" means Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce);";
(b) after the definition of "industrial and provident society", insert -
""information society service" means an information society service within the meaning of Article 2(a) of the electronic commerce directive;";
(c) after subsection (3), insert -
"(4) For the purposes of this Act -
(a) an information society service is provided from an EEA State if it is provided from an establishment in that State;
(b) an establishment, in connection with an information society service, is the place at which the provider of the service (being a national of an EEA State or a