Electronic Signature Under Cyprus Law

It is an accepted fact, that the current COVID-19 pandemic has urged and obligated the business and legal world to use all available tools in order to facilitate commercial transactions and maintain, to the extent possible, some sort of normality in the business affairs of corporations around the world. One of these tools, which has been extensively discussed and applied under the current circumstances, is the use of electronic signatures in the place of original handwritten signatures on agreements, resolutions or other types of documents. Their validity, admissibility and method of use is examined in this article.

The validity of e-signatures and their admissibility as evidence in legal proceedings is regulated by the EU Regulation 910/2014/EU on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulation"), which was incorporated into Cypriot law in 2018 through Law