2. Member States shall establish, maintain and publish, in a secured manner, electronically signed or sealed trusted lists provided for in paragraph 1 in a form suitable for automated processing.

where Member States, or contracting entities acting within an overall framework established by the Member State concerned, conclude that the level of risks, assessed under point (b) of this paragraph, is such that advanced electronic signatures as defined by Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council are required, contracting entities shall accept advanced electronic signatures supported by a qualified certificate, taking into account whether those certificates are provided by a certificate services provider, which is on ...[+++]a trusted list as provided for in Commission Decision 2009/767/EC , created with or without a secure signature creation device, subject to compliance with the following conditions:

25. Considers that eSignature interoperability from the eGovernment perspective has legal aspects (eSignature use in the public sector – Article 3.7 of the eSignature Directive; the relationship signature/authentication; the supervision/accreditation dilemma; the national perspective; security levels; signature qualifications) as well as technical aspects (identifiers in certificates; signature type; signature format; signature validation); is of the opinion that for the evolution of applications with a view to a fully interoperable European eSignature service for signature validation purposes, the most significant recommendatio ...[+++]n should be to set up a Federation of Validation Authorities (FVA) to coordinate Member States' National Validation Authorities (NVAs) ;

25. Considers that eSignature interoperability from the eGovernment perspective has legal aspects (eSignature use in the public sector – Article 3.7 of the eSignature Directive; the relationship signature/authentication; the supervision/accreditation dilemma; the national perspective; security levels; signature qualifications) as well as technical aspects (identifiers in certificates; signature type; signature format; signature validation); is of the opinion that for the evolution of applications with a view to a fully interoperable European eSignature service for signature validation purposes, the most significant recommendatio ...[+++]n should be to set up a Federation of Validation Authorities (FVA) to coordinate Member States’ National Validation Authorities (NVAs);

- By third quarter 2009: the Commission will update Decision 2003/511/EC[14], establishing the list of generally recognised standards for e-signature products and will analyse the possible extension of the decision to other e-signature products than those covered by the present Commission Decision (e.g. profiles of the qualified certificates and of the secure signatures creation devices).

B. List of the generally recognised standards for electronic signature products that Member States shall presume are in compliance with the requirements laid down in Annex III to Directive 1999/93/EC