Monday, September 26, 2011

Heavy stand for qualified signature

Heavy stand for qualified signature

As expected, the Federal Council decided on Friday that tax law
simplification. In order to fall in Germany forced to sign digital
bills, which originally was the first Should end July 2011. In the
future presented to the Federal Ministry of Finance states that "an
appropriately decorated already Accounting [...], the assignment of the
bill allows for the received power."

The amendment to the VAT Act, the federal government follows a
requirement of the EU, which demands equality between paper and digital
calculations. Until now in Germany for electronic document required a
qualified signature, verify the validity of the document and recipients
must.

On a same day as the Bundesrat session event that takes place of
TeleTrusT and VOI a number of industry representatives questioned the
role of the qualified signature. Said Ulf Leichsenring reported by
Lufthansa Systems AS GmbH believes that apply, including in the United
States are very lax rules for signing electronic documents. After his
experience in German companies took more than two percent of employees
at all qualified signature, in most cases from an advanced rich. Already
applies to most contracts form of freedom, so the participants only need
to agree on a procedure.

Primarily concerns the issue of signature sequences within and between
companies. For consumers, the technology is still there is neither
practical nor useful applications. Similarly, it seems now to see the
Federal Government: At the 20th Computing in the Judiciary presented
Tanja Laier, Head of the Home Office last Thursday considerations , in
future, in addition to the qualified signature, De-mail and the e-ID
methods for securing electronic communications between government and
citizens to use.

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