Digital Agenda

ELRA 2011, Jacques.vos@kadaster.nl

One of the biggest drivers

Expected increase

Digital Agenda for Europe

Essential factors: user empowermentubiquityinteroperabilitysecuritytrust

E-Identification, e-authentication and e-signatures

• An important role in the digital society

• To ensure the use we need a sound legal environment

• Public consultation

• Questionnaire is targeted at key players

The questions... General Expectations

e-Signatures tailored to face the challenges of the digital market

Principles to guide e-identification and e-authentication in Europe

Legislative measures for the challenges ahead

Research and innovation

Others

IPM reference number 721352127111610511

Usage and specific needs

Day by day routine

Tens of thousands of times each month or more

Qualified electronic signatures to:

- produce entries

- produce electronic documents with legal effect

- notifications

Specific needs:

Secure transactions

Unambiguous identification

Integrity

Legal effect

Security provisions unchanged

Usage and specific needs

Different needs Different legal systems

Land Registries of the Different Member States

Different legal systems

Title System Deeds System

Different technical systems

Electronic lodging Simultaneous transfer on paper and digital files

Electronic recording Sending of electronic documents

Electronic Conveyancing Sending and Updating registration

Usefullness in the coming years:

eProcurement (public)

eCommerce transactions

eBusiness transactions

Online banking / financial transactions

Usefullness

• Usefullness (in relation to ):

eGovernment services

Secure archiving / storage

Authenticity

Usefullness

Socio-economic benefits

Boost up the economy!

Broaden the housing market .

Stabilize prices..

Brings trust to the Real Estate Market..?

Economy might just grow…?

Specific interoperability or security aspects

Legal aspects (including liability)

Secure electronic means will boost up the use

Same level of use commodity

Mobile devices

• Legal regulatory measures at EU-level

• For a lot of trust building services

• BUT: minimum set of requirements at EU level /

• high degree of autonomy for the market

Cross border

• Every MS its own e-signature solution(s).

• Pilots within different MS to simplify and align solutions

• eHerkenning (The Netherlands)

• Cross border PKI (Estonia).

• A European alignment would help!

Cross border

• Validation between CSP`s: no private agreements!

• Possible solution: bilateral basis between MS

• Every MS at least one Single Point of Contact (single service)

Cross border

• Classification of e-signatures

• To match different levels of security

• Defined by law

• Highest classification for transfer of property rights

Cross border

• Legal provisions mutual recognition and acceptance

• legal certainty

• reduction of administrative burden

• increase of cross-border digital mobility

Cross border

Lessons learned / experiences

• Focus on light and limited measures

• True meaning of the rule

• No technical demands in legislation

• Open standards

Legislative measures