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Article 1 Subject matter

United Kingdom

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

With a view to ensuring the proper functioning of the F1... market while aiming at an adequate level of security of F2... trust services this Regulation:

  1. (a)

    F3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  2. (b)

    lays down rules for trust services, in particular for electronic transactions; and

  3. (c)

    establishes a legal framework for electronic signatures, electronic seals, electronic time stamps, electronic documents, electronic registered delivery services and certificate services for website authentication.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Word in Art. 1 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. 2(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2

Words in Art. 1 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. 2(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3

Art. 1(a) 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. 2(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)