Laws and Regulations

Signature Validity

The TrustPro Qualified Electronic Signature and Qualified Electronic Seal must be compulsorily accepted by public and / or private entities and organizations, in accordance with the provisions of the EU eIDAS Regulation No 910/2014.

TrustPro QTSP is a Qualified Trust Service Provider duly authorized for the supply of qualified electronic signatures and qualified electronic seals, present on the EU Commission Trusted List Browser portal: https://esignature.ec.europa.eu/efda/tl-browser/#/screen/home

Interoperability of electronic signatures and electronic seals

The obligation to recognize qualified electronic signatures and qualified electronic seals introduced in the eIDAS Regulation (art.24a, paragraph 1) must be honored by public administrations and private organizations, otherwise, in addition to not allowing the exercise of a right by a citizens of the Union, there is a an infringement procedure.

eIDAS Regulation N. 910/2014

As amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 as regards establishing the European Digital Identity Framework.

The eIDAS Regulation (establishing the European Digital Identity Framework) provides a Community regulatory framework for digital identity trust services and intra-Community electronic identification means of member states.

Article 24a

Recognition of qualified trust services

  1. Qualified electronic signatures based on a qualified certificate issued in one Member State and qualified electronic seals based on a qualified certificate issued in one Member State shall be recognised, respectively, as qualified electronic signatures and qualified electronic seals in all other Member States.

Article 25

Legal effects of electronic signatures

  1. An electronic signature shall not be denied legal effect and admissibility as evidence in legal proceedings solely on the grounds that it is in an electronic form or that it does not meet the requirements for qualified electronic signatures.
  2. A qualified electronic signature shall have the equivalent legal effect of a handwritten signature.

Article 35

Legal effects of electronic seals

  1. An electronic seal shall not be denied legal effect and admissibility as evidence in legal proceedings solely on the grounds that it is in an electronic form or that it does not meet the requirements for qualified electronic seals.
  2. A qualified electronic seal shall enjoy the presumption of integrity of the data and of correctness of the origin of that data to which the qualified electronic seal is linked.

Therefore, public bodies and private organizations are urged to update the digital signature verification systems with European Trusted Lists

In order to verify that its qualified electronic signature verification systems comply with European legislation, a test document signed with a qualified electronic signature based on a qualified certificate issued by TrustPro QTSP is made available. This verification must be successful.

Verification of validity of your signed document

It is possible to check the validity of the TrustPro signature, also using the European Union web service for the validation of signatures.

https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/DSS/webapp-demo/validation

EU DSS Signature Validation Web Service

Resources

Cloud Signature Consortium Logo

TrustPro QTSP is a member of the Cloud Signature Consortium, a group of industry and academic organizations committed to building a new standard for cloud-based digital signatures that support web and mobile applications and comply with the most demanding electronic signature regulations in the world.

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TrustPro QTSP Electronic Signature is integrated in Docusign. Docusign is even more powerful with the TrustPro QTSP Qualified Electronic Certificate compliant with the European eIDAS Regulation.
Find out more about our Docusign Integration.

Adobe Acrobat Sign Logo

Get document digitally signed in Adobe Acrobat Sign with TrustPro QTSP credentials. TrustPro QTSP customers are able to sign seamlessly with their qualified electronic signatures in Adobe Acrobat Sign by simply entering their credentials once requested.
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