eIDAS: New European standard
The new EU regulation eIDAS (EU Regulation 910/2014), a standard on trust services for electronic transactions, will precede the German Signature Act as of 1 July 2016 and thus have priority of application.
However, until a Trust Services Act adapted to eIDAS is adopted, the Signature Act will remain valid for the time being. eIDAS not only regulates signatures and time stamps, but now also enables qualified seals, i.e. signatures for legal entities, and other new services such as verification of seals and signatures, delivery of electronic registered mail and storage services. Above all, the new EU standard ensures legal security throughout Europe. This also supports the special quality feature "qualified trust service provider" according to eIDAS, which a provider only receives if it has undergone a corresponding audit.
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