Footnotes


1 From a legal viewpoint, it was felt that technical descriptions should be avoided. In the establishment of laws, more abstract formulations could be used where the foundational functions are contained, and at the same time clarify the demand for verification both for the originator and the contents.


2 electronic record: a defined set of data, which can be viewed, listened to or otherwise apprehended only by electronic means, digital document: an electronic record with a digital signature or a digital stamp,

digital signature: the result of a transformation of an electronic record, by means of a unique key, making it possible to ascertain if the contents originate from the individual designated as issuer.

digital stamp: the result of a transformation of an electronic record, by means of a unique key, making it possible to ascertain if the contents originate from the legal person or authority designated as issuer.


3 The attainment of a sufficient level of security has been judged as being primarily a technical problem, with the presuppositions that both the contents and the originator should be possible to be verified - as when the demands of a digital signature according to ISO- standards are fulfilled.


4 A document that is transmitted electronically is deemed to have arrived to an agency that day when the document
  1. has arrived to the agencies electronic address,

  2. has been received by a qualified employee, or

  3. may be assumed to have arrived to the agencies electronic address, if it has come into the hands of a qualified employee the following working day.

5 Examples of this are the concept "Just in Time" and "Business Process Reengineering", where even such demands that have been perceived as obvious from a legal point of view may be questioned.


6 Cf the Council of Europe, Recommendation No. R (95) 13 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States Concerning Problems of Criminal Procedure Law Connected with Information Technology.