Changes and additions to law “On electronic identification and trust services”

Official Bulletin no 259, dated 6 January 2017

On 15.12.2016, the Parliament of Albania approved law nr. 123/2016, whereby makes some changes and additions to law no. 107/2015, “On electronic identification and trust services”.

Firstly, the law makes a change to the last paragraph of article 27 where according to the new statement, it is defined that rules regarding the provision of electronic public services are approved only by decision of the Council of Ministers.

The addition made below point 1 of article 34 is particularly important, according to which qualified bidders of trust services, who operate in member countries of the European Union and are accredited by the respective supervising authority, the identification and trust services issued by them will have the same legal validity and probation strength, as those issued by a qualified bidder of trust services, who operates in the Republic of Albania.

The addition made below point 1 of article 34 is particularly important, according to which qualified bidders of trust services, who operate in member countries of the European Union and are accredited by the respective supervising authority, the identification and trust services issued by them will have the same legal validity and probation strength, as those issued by a qualified bidder of trust services, who operates in the Republic of Albania.

The addition made to article 34 claims once again the purpose of the Republic of Albania to harmonize and unify the inner legislation with ‘aquis communitaire’ of European Union, in order to precipitate the European integration process. In the concrete case, the new law will provide a partial approach to the European Parliament and Council, mo. 910/2015, on 23.07.2014, “On the electronic identification transactions and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/CE”.