Commission Decision of 16 October 2009 setting out measures facilitating the use of procedures by electronic means through the ‘points of single contact’ under Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on services in the internal market (notified under document C(2009) 7806) (Text with EEA relevance) (2009/767/EC)

[X1 [F1 1. Introduction U.K.

The purpose of the Common Template for Member States’ ‘ Trusted List of supervised/accredited Certification Service Providers ’ is to establish a common way in which each Member State provides information about the supervision/accreditation status of the certification services from Certification Service Providers (1) (CSPs) who are supervised/accredited by them for compliance with the relevant provisions of Directive 1999/93/EC. This includes the provision of historical information about the supervision/accreditation status of the supervised/accredited certification services.

This information is primarily aimed at supporting the validation of Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) and Advanced Electronic Signatures (AdES) (2) supported by a Qualified Certificate (3) (4) .

The mandatory information in the Trusted List must include, as a minimum, information on supervised/accredited CSPs issuing Qualified Certificates (QCs) (5) in accordance with the provisions laid down in Directive 1999/93/EC (Article 3(2) and (3), and Article 7(1)(a)), including, when this is not part of the QCs, information on the QCs supporting an electronic signature and whether or not the signature is created by a Secure Signature Creation Device (SSCD) (6) .

Additional information on other CSPs not issuing QCs but providing services related to electronic signatures (e.g. CSP providing Time Stamping Services and issuing Time Stamp Tokens, CSP issuing non-Qualified certificates, etc.) may be included in the Trusted List at a national level on a voluntary basis provided they are either accredited/supervised in a similar way as the CSPs issuing QC or approved under a different national approval scheme. The national approval schemes may in some Member States differ from the supervision or voluntary accreditation schemes applicable for CSPs issuing QCs with regard to applicable requirements and/or the responsible organisation. The terms ‘ accredited ’ and/or ‘ supervised ’ in the present specifications also cover the national approval schemes but additional information on the nature of any national schemes will be provided by Member States in their Trusted List, including clarification on the possible differences with the accreditation/supervision schemes applied to CSPs issuing QCs.

The Common Template relies on ETSI TS 119 612 v1.1.1 (7) (hereafter referred to as ETSI TS 119 612) that addresses the establishment, publication, location, access, authentication and integrity of such lists.] ]

Editorial Information

X1 Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Decision 2009/767/EC of 16 October 2009 setting out measures facilitating the use of procedures by electronic means through the ‘points of single contact’ under Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on services in the internal market (Official Journal of the European Union L 274 of 20 October 2009).

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Decision of 14 October 2013 amending Decision 2009/767/EC as regards the establishment, maintenance and publication of trusted lists of certification service providers supervised/accredited by Member States (notified under document C(2013) 6543) (Text with EEA relevance) (2013/662/EU).

(1)

[X1 [F1 As defined in Article 2(11) of Directive 1999/93/EC.] ]

(2)

[X1 [F1 As defined in Article 2(2) of Directive 1999/93/EC.] ]

(3)

[X1 [F1 For an AdES supported by a QC the acronym ‘ AdES _QC ’ is used throughout the present document.] ]

(4)

[X1 [F1 Note that there are a number of electronic services based on simple AdES whose cross-border use would also be facilitated, provided that the supporting certification services (e.g. issuing of non-qualified certificates) are part of the supervised/accredited services covered by a Member State in the voluntary information part of their Trusted List.] ]

(5)

[X1 [F1 As defined in Article 2(10) of Directive 1999/93/EC.] ]

(6)

[X1 [F1 As defined in Article 2(6) of Directive 1999/93/EC.] ]

(7)

[X1 [F1 ETSI TS 119 612 v1.1.1 (2013-06) – Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); Trusted Lists.] ]

Editorial Information

X1 Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Decision 2009/767/EC of 16 October 2009 setting out measures facilitating the use of procedures by electronic means through the ‘points of single contact’ under Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on services in the internal market (Official Journal of the European Union L 274 of 20 October 2009).

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Decision of 14 October 2013 amending Decision 2009/767/EC as regards the establishment, maintenance and publication of trusted lists of certification service providers supervised/accredited by Member States (notified under document C(2013) 6543) (Text with EEA relevance) (2013/662/EU).