Using secure signature creation devices helps in facilitating online business processes that save time and money with transactions made within the public and private sectors.
Through appropriate procedural and technical means, the device must reasonably assure the confidentiality of the data used to create an electronic signature.
Lastly it shall only allow a qualified trust service provider or certificate authority to create or manage a signatory’s electronic signature data.
The intent of the directive was to make EU Member States responsible for creating legislation that would allow for the creation of the European Union’s electronic signing system.
The eIDAS Regulation required all Member States to follow its specifications for electronic signatures by its effective date of 1 July 2016.