As of now, electronic documents and signatures are legally
binding for almost all business and personal transactions
throughout the EU.
The "eIDAS – regulation", known as the
Electronic Identification and Trust Services regulation, (EU) No.
910/2014 of the European Parliament and Council of July 2014,
concerning electronic identification and trusted services for
electronic transactions in the internal market, ultimately serves
to repeal Directive 1999/93/EC (OJ L 257, 28.8.2014, p. 73),
creating standards and a respective framework for the cross-border
use of electronic documents and signatures within the 27 member
States of the European Union and the European Economic Area
(EEA).
