The Law on Electronic Digital Signatures has been adopted in the Russian Federation

On January 23, 2002 a law on Electronic Digital Signatures came into force in the Russian Federation. The EDS Law allows replacing the written form by the electronic form, if an electronic digital signature has been applied to an electronic document.

Contrary to initial concerns the new regulation offers a comparatively liberal solution, without any indications, that the Russian government would try to control all actions of the respective users within the world wide web.

You may also read the comments on the EDS Law from our preferred adviser, Beiten Burkhardt, in the corresponding section of the Knowledge Base.