Book Va: General provisions

An advanced electronic signature based on a qualified certificate within the meaning of Article D. 589-3 is an advanced electronic signature, in accordance with Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/ EC, which is based on a qualified electronic signature certificate…

The procedure for registering and recording identification and authorisation data for electronic signature processes made available to persons participating in the procedure within the meaning of Article 11, is, in the case of magistrates, military personnel and public officials, at the initiative and under the responsibility of the ministry to which they report or under whose supervision they are placed. In other cases, this procedure is placed under the control…

The technical device referred to in Article D. 589-4 enables the handwritten signature of any person to be obtained, including any person taking part in the proceedings within the meaning of Article 11, in order to make it a digital image integrated into the body of one of the acts mentioned in the first paragraph of I of article 801-1. The collection in digital form of one or more handwritten…