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The transition to qualified e-signatures should be postponed until the end of the year

11/ 05/ 2022
  By May 31, it is required that businesses switch to using qualified electronic signatures (QES) with certificates stored on a token or in cloud storage instead of advanced e-signatures (AES). Currently, this deadline is tied to the quarantine imposed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and does not take into account the realities of the operation of companies and institutions under martial law. The EBA experts believe that CMU Resolution №193 for businesses to switch to cloud-based QES or tokens during martial law may complicate business processes. Thus, not all authorized key certification centers currently have cloud QES, and not all government agencies have integrated them. Another important point is that most of the companys customers do not yet use cloud QES. For example, banks will have to teach all customers in a short time how to issue and use them. As a result, businesses fear that the commitment to switch to QES will create an unnecessary burden on the market in the near future. Svitlana Mykhailovska. EBA Deputy Director for Advocacy. For more than 10 years, businesses have been using file e-signatures, which according to current legislation are equivalent to AES. Many customers do not currently have experience using cloud-based QES or token keys. The transition to the QES will require the physical presence of most customers, ie, for example, to get the QES in the bank, you need to come to one of its branches. In wartime, this can be difficult, so we now consider the transition to QES a burdensome requirement that is not urgent, but will only add to the worries of business and its customers. In view of this, the EBA asked the Prime Minister of Ukraine to consider extending Resolution №193 until the end of 2022 to give businesses enough time for properly testing the use of cloud QES, as well as informing and educating clients.

By May 31, it is required that businesses switch to using qualified electronic signatures (QES) with certificates stored on a token or in cloud storage instead of advanced e-signatures (AES). Currently, this deadline is tied to the quarantine imposed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and does not take into account the realities of the operation of companies and institutions under martial law.

The EBA experts believe that CMU Resolution №193 for businesses to switch to cloud-based QES or tokens during martial law may complicate business processes. Thus, not all authorized key certification centers currently have cloud QES, and not all government agencies have integrated them.

Another important point is that most of the company’s customers do not yet use cloud QES. For example, banks will have to teach all customers in a short time how to issue and use them. As a result, businesses fear that the commitment to switch to QES will create an unnecessary burden on the market in the near future.

Svitlana Mykhailovska EBA Deputy Director for Advocacy
For more than 10 years, businesses have been using file e-signatures, which according to current legislation are equivalent to AES. Many customers do not currently have experience using cloud-based QES or token keys. The transition to the QES will require the physical presence of most customers, ie, for example, to get the QES in the bank, you need to come to one of its branches. In wartime, this can be difficult, so we now consider the transition to QES a burdensome requirement that is not urgent, but will only add to the worries of business and its customers.

In view of this, the EBA asked the Prime Minister of Ukraine to consider extending Resolution №193 until the end of 2022 to give businesses enough time for properly testing the use of cloud QES, as well as informing and educating clients.

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