48. Underlines the fact that the Commission has a unique role to play in promoting progress on standardisation and infrastructure issues – e-signatures and time-stamps, for example, need a commonly agreed format for security purposes; asks the Commission to develop the common standards in question; emphasises that onerous technical requirements for bidder authentication can act as barriers to operators; stresses, in this context, the need to develop a standardised system for e-signature; calls on the Member States to make av ...[+++]ailable a validation service for certificates issued by certification service providers under their supervision;

49. Underlines the fact that the Commission has a unique role to play in promoting progress on standardisation and infrastructure issues – e-signatures and time-stamps, for example, need a commonly agreed format for security purposes; asks the Commission to develop the common standards in question; emphasises that onerous technical requirements for bidder authentication can act as barriers to operators; stresses, in this context, the need to develop a standardised system for e-signature; calls on the Member States to make av ...[+++]ailable a validation service for certificates issued by certification service providers under their supervision;

Treasury Board Secretariat and lead security agencies, namely the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada, and the Communications Security Establishment, play a key role in developing and renewing IT security standards, technical documentation, and guidance to respond to new IT challenges and opportunities. Ms. Helen McDonald: For example, last May TBS introduced the management of information technology security or MITS standard, which covers the 40 standards that had been identified in 2002 as key to an effective Government of Canada IT security posture.

In 1988 the Treasury Board Secretariat initiated a four-digit date standard, and many departments began the repair work at that time.