With EU regulation eIDAS (Regulation on electronic identification, authentication, and trust services) taking effect, the EU created a legal basis for valid electronic communication and secure electronic identification throughout Europe. Trust services, e.g., electronic signatures, seals, time stamps, delivery services, certificates, support companies, administrations, and individuals exchanging digital documents, e.g., contracts, orders, etc., within the EU on a unified legal basis. This EU regulation replaces national signature laws and regulations of the EU member states.
Under this Regulation (EC) No 910/2014/EU (eIDAS Regulation), national trusted lists have a constitutive effect. In other words, a trust service provider and its services are certified if they appear on the trusted list. Consequently, all EU citizens, businesses, or public administrations benefit from the legal effect of a given qualified trust service only if listed in the trusted list.
Swisscom’s subsidiary in Vienna, Austria, Swisscom IT Services Finance S.E., is a certified trust service provider with it qualified signatures, seals, and certificates: https://eidas.ec.europa.eu/efda/tl-browser/#/screen/tl/AT
Swisscom IT Services Finance S.E. has mandated Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd to operate the trust service and has delegated the registration authority activities to Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd. Thus, Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd. offers the service to the market and accepts contractual documents on behalf of Swisscom IT Services Finance S.E.