Agencja Unii Europejskiej ds. Cyberbezpieczeństwa, Wytyczne techniczne dla kwalifikowanych dostawców usług zaufania oparte na standardach

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR QTSPS BASED ON STANDARDS

Technical guidelines on trust services

MARCH 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 (also known as the „eIDAS Regulation”), on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market, provides a regulatory environment for electronic identification of natural and legal persons and for a set of electronic trust services, namely; electronic signatures, seals, time stamps, registered delivery services and certificates for website authentication.

It is possible to use those trust services as well as electronic documents as evidence in legal proceedings in all EU Member States contributing to their general cross-border use. Courts (or other bodies in charge of legal proceedings) cannot discard them as evidence only because they are electronic but have to assess these electronic tools in the same way they would do for their paper equivalent.

To further enhance the trust of small and medium-sized...