Electronic archiving, the future of trust?

In order to complete the analysis of the  eIDAS Regulation proposal , here is the last brick integrated by the European Commission: electronic archiving as a trust service. Some experts will say “finally”. 

Some Member States have introduced numerous requirements for services providing trusted electronic archiving in order to allow long-term preservation of electronic documents.

This is the case with the Belgian law of July 21, 2016 implementing and supplementing Regulation (EU) n ° 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of July 23, 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions within the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93 / EC which defines the electronic archiving service as “an additional trust service to those referred to in Article 3 (16) of Regulation 910/2014, which consistsin the storage of electronic data or the digitization of paper documents , and which is provided by a trust service provider within the meaning of Article 3 (19) of Regulation 910/2014 or which is operated on its own account by a public sector body or a natural or legal person “ .

Or the Luxembourg law of 25 July 2015 on electronic archiving and amending: 1. Article 1334 of the Civil Code; 2. Article 16 of Commercial Code; 3.the amended law of 5 April 1993 relating to the financial sector  which defines electronic custody as“the activity which consists in keeping a digital original or a copy with probative value under conditions which provide reliable guarantees as to the maintenance of the integrity of the stored document” (art. 2).

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