Definition of electronic signature

(b) To adduce evidence of the non reliability of an electronic signature.

(a) The authenticity of electronic signatures relating to tenders can be established comply with relevant electronic signature legislation, e.g. that based on Model Law on Electronic Signatures

(a) To take reasonable steps to verify the reliability of an electronic signature or

(b) Where an electronic signature is supported by a certificate, to take reasonable steps

(c) Any alteration to the electronic signature, made after the time of signing, is detectable and

3. An electronic signature created or used outside the enacting State shall have the same legal effect in the enacting State as an electronic signature created or used in the enacting State if it offers a substantially equivalent level of reliability.

Paragraph 3 (a) provides that only an electronic signature that fulfils both the function of identification of the party as well as the function of indicating that party's approval of the information contained in the electronic communication meets that legal requirement of a signature in relation to an electronic communication.

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.

(i) Acoustically activated fuzes use electronic sensors to react to acoustic pressure and recognize the acoustic signature.

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

(a) To the geographic location where the certificate is issued or the electronic signature created or used or

In each of the countries visited, an electronic monitoring system with respective software is in place.

In each of the countries visited, an electronic monitoring system with respective software is in place.

The purpose of the draft convention was to indicate how a single set of rules of law should best be interpreted in the field of electronic communications and not to create a legal entity, an electronic signature, with a separate status from a handwritten signature.

(f) The implementation of a variety of information systems for supporting the efficiency of court processes, such as the Electronic Disclosure System, which has been implemented in both Tribunals electronic automated translation software case management software an electronic evidence management repository an automated indexed decisions database and an automated publishing system.

(f) Relying party means a person that may act on the basis of a certificate or an electronic signature.

It was suggested that, in the interests of uniformity, the draft instrument should adopt a definition of electronic signature based on other UNCITRAL instruments such as the Model Law on Electronic Signatures (2001) and the Model Law on Electronic Commerce (1996).

3. An electronic signature is considered to be reliable for the purpose of satisfying the requirement referred to in paragraph 1 if

1. In determining whether, or to what extent, a certificate or an electronic signature is legally effective, no regard shall be had

Other views were expressed that the term electronic signature should not be defined, and that it should be left to national law.

The Working Group may be aware that electronic means of communication may involve the use of particular tools or software.

The phrase A method is used to identify the party and to associate that party with the information contained in the electronic communication represents the minimum functional requirements of any signature, handwritten or electronic.

The objective was to ensure that, if an electronic signature fulfilled the functions described in draft article 9, paragraph 3 (a), a party could not challenge the validity of that signature on the grounds of non reliability.

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Further, it was thought that, in order to be commercially practicable, a definition of electronic signature should be uncomplicated and inexpensively met in practice.

We are of the view that, compared with article 7 of the Model Law on Electronic Commerce, article 6 of the Model Law on Electronic Signatures can significantly increase legal certainty by having set out well detailed standards for determining the reliability of an electronic signature.

They were needed, inter alia, to assist States that were enacting new laws in determining what criteria an electronic signature had to fulfil in order to be equivalent to a handwritten signature and also to encourage the use of new technology.

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(a) To establish in any other way, for the purpose of satisfying the requirement referred to in paragraph 1, the reliability of an electronic signature or

A party could try to invalidate his own electronic signature as being insufficiently reliable, in order to invalidate a contract, where it is convenient to him.

In our view, electronic signatures are merely another form of signature, and should in principle be legally valid as signatures without any special requirements of reliability.

Whether an electronic communication that fulfilled the requirement of a signature has legal validity is to be settled under the law applicable outside the draft convention.

In the Model Law on Electronic Commerce, article 7 and article 13 together affirmed the validity of an electronic signature and allowed the attribution of the data message to an originator as long as the addressee used a method agreed upon with the originator to verify the authenticity of the message, without the need to demonstrate the authenticity of the signature itself.

Questions of proof of the making of the signature (which exist for both handwritten and electronic signatures) should not distort the law on the validity of signatures.

It was suggested that, if national law was the applicable law, rules would have to be established to determine the choice of law to govern the electronic signature.

The conjunctive requirement in paragraph 3 (a) of article 9 would prevent electronic signatures from satisfying the requirement of law for a signature in such situations where the function of indicating approval of the contents of the electronic communication cannot be fulfilled by such signatures.

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(a) Electronic signature means data in electronic form in, affixed to or logically associated with, a data message, which may be used to identify the signatory in relation to the data message and to indicate the signatory's approval of the information contained in the data message

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However, there may be instances where the law requires a signature that does not fulfil the function of indicating the signing party's approval of the information contained in the electronic communication.

Thus, if the method used failed to identify the party and to indicate that party's intention but it could nonetheless be proved through extraneous evidence that the electronic signature had been created by the signing party, such a signature would not meet the requirements of draft article 9, paragraph 3.

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In addition, the second sentence of draft article 35 was deleted in favour of the sentence, Such signature must identify the signatory in relation to the electronic transport record and indicate the carrier's authorization of the electronic transport record. Further, the word other was deleted from draft article 61 bis (2).

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