Draft paragraph 3 (b) was not intended to confer legal validity on an electronic signature but simply to make it the functional equivalent of a handwritten signature.

Signature Signature

Compliance with a requirement for a signature

These continuing ceasefire violations make progress in negotiations on security arrangements at Abuja, and in particular the signature of a new, enhanced ceasefire, especially urgent.

1. Where signature creation data can be used to create a signature that has legal effect, each signatory shall

The aim is to make the infrared guided missile seek out the heat signature from the flare rather than the aircraft's engines.

Article 42 Signature

Article IV Signature

Final provision, signature

Opening for signature

In commercial transactions, the person relying on a signature always takes the risk that the signature is not genuine, so he evaluates the risk that the signature is not genuine and protects himself accordingly.

It was for the individual parties to check with the signatory whether a signature had been appended, and the signature derived its legal effect from the proven link between the signature and the signatory.

Draft article 35 Signature

Definition of electronic signature

_______________________ Signature of person attesting

Signature thumbprint of applicant

Signature of authorising officer.

Treaty signature ratification event

This may involve checking the signature against known genuine versions of it, or getting the signature witnessed, notarized or guaranteed by a bank, etc.

1. Where a certification service provider provides services to support an electronic signature that may be used for legal effect as a signature, that certification service provider shall

If it is recognized that the legal effect of a signature is based on the proven link between the document, the signature and the purported signor, then it is irrelevant whether the signature method was of an appropriate level of reliability.

Profile does not match signature

Equal treatment of signature technologies

Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval, accession

Signature, ratification, acceptance or approval

Signature Myanmar (2 December 2005)

Signature Egypt (20 September 2005)

Signature Guatemala (20 September 2005)

Signature Portugal (21 September 2005)

Signature Senegal (21 September 2005)

Article 16 (period for signature)

Signature Belgium (24 October 2005)

SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE AND APPROVAL

Signature Cuba (9 December 2005)

Signature India (9 December 2005)

Signature, ratification, acceptance and approval

SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE AND APPROVAL

Signature Lebanon (23 September 2005)

Signature Ukraine (23 September 2005)

Signature Israel (29 November 2005)

(a) At the time of signing this Agreement, declare that by such signature it expresses its consent to be bound by this Agreement (definitive signature) or

(a) At the time of signing this Agreement, declare that by such signature it expresses its consent to be bound by this Agreement (definitive signature) or

As treaties must remain at United Nations Headquarters for signature, it has been decided to hold a parallel signature event at Headquarters on 25 April 2005.

It is not the form of the signature, but the proven link between the signature and the purported signor based on the context, that gives the signature its legal effect.

That is, a party may not feel comfortable about relying on a signature in the form of a cross X , but that is a judgement by that party as a matter of prudence, and not a matter of law, as the signature in the form of a cross X is fully valid as a signature at law.