Development of e-business in the commercial sector of the European Union countries in 2003-2004 did not belong to the fastest. It was influenced by its structure, i. e. the dominating position of very small and small entities. In their article, the authors present the global comparative indicator, Scoreboard, calculated for the EU commercial sector. Its shape shows that the values of e-business indicators for the EU commerce sector (ICT network ties, internal business processes, online purchases and integration of supply chains and online sale) are lower than the mean values for the remaining nine EU sectors. However, there exist convincing premises inducing trade enterprises to invest in the ICT.