9 Amendments of Christian EHLER related to 2012/0146(COD)
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In most cases service providers from another Member State cannot use their electronic authentication or identification to access these services because the national electronic authentication or identification schemes in their country are not recognised and accepted in other Member States. ThisAn additional problem is that currently deployed systems do not allow for citizens and beneficiaries of these services to cultivate trust in the service provider by effective mutual authentication or identification. These electronic barriers excludes service providers from enjoying the full benefits of the internal market. Mutually recognized and accepted electronic authentication or identification means will facilitate cross- border provision of numerous services in the Internal Market and enable businesses to go cross-border without facing many obstacles in interactions with public authorities.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Member States should remain free to use or introduce means, for electronic authentication or identification purposes, for accessing online services. They should also be able to decide whether to involve the private sector in the provision of these means. Member States should not be obliged to notify their electronic identification schemes. The choice to either notify all, some or none of the electronic identification schemes used at national level to access at least public online services or specific services is up to the Member States.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Some conditions need to be set in the Regulation with regard to which electronic authentication or identification means have to be accepted and how the schemes should be notified. These should help Member States to build the necessary trust in each other's electronic identification schemes and to mutually recognise and accept electronic identification means falling under their notified schemes. The principle of mutual recognition and acceptance should apply if the notifying Member State meets the conditions of notification and the notification was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. However, the access to these online services and their final delivery to the applicant should be closely linked to the right to receive such services under the conditions set by national legislation.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Member States should be able to decide to involve the private sector in the issuance of electronic identification means and to allow the private sector the use of electronicissuing electronic authentication or identification means. Private sector parties should also be allowed to use electronic authentication and identification means under a notified scheme for authentication or identification purposes when needed for online services or electronic transactions. The possibility to use such electronic identification means would enable the private sector to rely on electronic identification and/or authentication already largely used in many Member States at least for public services and to make it easier for businesses and citizens to access their online services across borders. In order to facilitate the use of such electronic authentication or identification means across borders by the private sector, the authentication possibility provided by the Member States should be available to relying parties without discriminating between public orand private sector.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Cooperation of Member States should serve the technical interoperability of the notified electronic authentication or identification schemes with a view to foster a high level of trust and security appropriate to the degree of risk. The exchange of information and the sharing of best practices between Member States with a view to their mutual recognition should help such cooperation.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation lays down rules for certain electronic authentication or identification and electronic trust services for electronic transactions with a view to ensuring the proper functioning of the internal market.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. This Regulation lays down the conditions under which Member States shall recognise and accept electronic authentication or identification means ofor natural and legal persons falling under a notified electronic authentication or identification scheme of another Member State.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation applies to electronic authentication and identification provided by, on behalf or under the responsibility of Member States and to the associated trust service providers established in the Union.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – point 1
Article 3 – point 1
(1) ‘electronic identification’ means the process of using personan electronic authentication using identification data in electronic form unambiguously representing a natural or legal person where: (a) the identification data can only be used by the relying party for identifying the person if specified conditions are met (conditional electronic identification) or (b) the identification data can be used by the relying party for identifying the person (unconditional electronic identification);