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WORKSHOP<br />

Examples of different approaches<br />

Methods Country Remarks<br />

No speciication<br />

Use of worklow<br />

Use of secure servers and<br />

certiicates<br />

Use of electronic signatures<br />

Belgium, United Kingdom,<br />

Portugal, Norway<br />

Austria, Denmark, france,<br />

Portugal, Germany, finland<br />

Estonia, france, Greece,<br />

Portugal<br />

Austria, france, Greece,<br />

hungary, Slovenia<br />

Legislative changes<br />

No technical projects<br />

concerning authenticity of<br />

ofical journal<br />

the scope of worklow<br />

varies: only the publishing<br />

or the whole lawmaking<br />

process<br />

mostly servers with secure<br />

https protocol<br />

Also open source products<br />

Different signatures: server<br />

signatures, XmL<br />

signatures, Xa<strong>DE</strong>S<br />

signatures, PDf signatures<br />

2. ON thE KEy CONCEPtS<br />

the working group has noticed that there is a plethora of concepts used in<br />

the discussion on electronic publishing of legislation. to clarify the differences<br />

between the key concepts, the working group has drawn up a list of key concepts<br />

with short descriptions or deinitions.<br />

the key concepts in the electronic publishing of legislation are:<br />

• authenticity/authentication of electronic documents,<br />

• chain of conidence,<br />

• digital or electronic signature/advanced or qualiied electronic signature,<br />

• electronic documents,<br />

• oficial electronic versions.<br />

Authenticity<br />

Authenticity refers to the quality and credibility of an electronic document<br />

(in this case the electronic act or the electronic legal gazette). It has something<br />

in common with genuineness, legitimacy, undisputed credibility and believability.<br />

Authentic implies being fully trustworthy in accordance with fact and<br />

with regard to documents in law, and authenticity (Greek: αυθεντικός, from<br />

‘authentes’ = ‘author’) is the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments,<br />

sincerity and intentions, and not being a copy or forgery. As regards<br />

electronic legal text, authenticity means that text published is provided by the<br />

competent authority, that the text has not undergone any substantial<br />

102 | 103<br />

01_2007_5222_txt_ML.indd 103 6-12-2007 15:13:52

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