{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-910/annex-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-910/annex-III.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2014/910",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-910",
  "path": "annex/III",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "REQUIREMENTS FOR QUALIFIED CERTIFICATES FOR ELECTRONIC SEALS",
  "text": "Qualified certificates for electronic seals shall contain:\n(a)an indication, at least in a form suitable for automated processing, that the certificate has been issued as a qualified certificate for electronic seal;\n(b)a set of data unambiguously representing the qualified trust service provider issuing the qualified certificates including at least ...:\nfor a legal person: the name and, where applicable, registration number as stated in the official records,\nfor a natural person: the person’s name;\n(c)at least the name of the creator of the seal and, where applicable, registration number as stated in the official records;\n(d)electronic seal validation data, which corresponds to the electronic seal creation data;\n(e)details of the beginning and end of the certificate’s period of validity;\n(f)the certificate identity code, which must be unique for the qualified trust service provider;\n(g)the advanced electronic signature or advanced electronic seal of the issuing qualified trust service provider;\n(h)the location where the certificate supporting the advanced electronic signature or advanced electronic seal referred to in point (g) is available free of charge;\n(i)the location of the services that can be used to enquire as to the validity status of the qualified certificate;\n(j)where the electronic seal creation data related to the electronic seal validation data is located in a qualified electronic seal creation device, an appropriate indication of this, at least in a form suitable for automated processing.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex 3 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electronic Identification and Trust Services for Electronic Transactions (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/89), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 43; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/910/annex/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:47:21.130059+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}