[cooperation-wg] EU proposa on qualified signatures

Just to add a little to what Patrik wrote.

This concerns a proposal for a Regulation and not for a Directive. The essential difference is that a Directive has to be transposed into national law and so there is another local stage. A Regulation on the other hand is directly applicable: the adopted text will be the applicable law in each EU Member State.

The Commission's proposed regulation is actually quite wide ranging - covering identification, signatures of various kinds, seals, time stamps, delivery services, website authentication and so on - and refers to a whole range of activities. 

My feeling is that a presentation / discussion in Dublin would be very useful for very many people. 

Maybe the co-chairs could try and get somebody from Brussels.

Gordon