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The extraordinary impact of the information technology, everything that is or becomes „e”, puts its mark on the whole economic, social, cultural life of the mankind and virtually governs the whole modern world.

In this virtual world electronic commerce is a concept that underlines one of the most important facilities offered by the Internet: the capacity to make transactions beyond the borders, time and space.

The main characteristics of the electronic commerce are:

1.  it insures a high speed for carrying on transactions;
2.  it allows the access to new market segments;
3.  it ensures an increased flexibility for the commercial policies;
4.  it determines the decrease of the provisioning, distribution and promoting costs;
5.  it involves simplifying the  transactioning procedures;
6.  it contributes to the increase of competitivity on the firm and on the national level;
7.  it determines the increase of the transactions’ value by stimulating the buyers;
8.  it insures the possibility to configure products and services and immediately to notice their real prices, in comparisson with the prices of other offerors.

The electronic commerce is the key for enterprises’ competitivity in the informational era, insuring the access to new market segments and increasing the speed of developing business.