EU Council adopts electronic identification rules

The EU Council issued an announcement entitled Council adopts electronic identification rules, on 23 July 2014.

Here is the summary:

The Council today adopted a regulation which lays down conditions for mutual recognition of electronic identification; sets rules for trust services, in particular for electronic transactions; and creates a legal framework for electronic signatures, seals and time stamps, electronic documents as well as electronic registered delivery services and certificate services for website authentication (PE-CONS 60/14; statement: 11733/14 ADD 1).

For more details, please see the complete announcement, and the documents linked from it.

HT Ronald van den Hoogen

Filed under: Policy Materials Tagged: Digital identity, Digital legal transactions, Digital signatures, Electronic identity, Electronic legal transactions, Electronic signatures, EU, EU Council, European Union



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