e-Administration
Article 50
Communications, documents and securities may be produced, processed, and managed by using IT systems on condition that the systems applicable are managed under the officially approved quality and security protocols fit for those systems. If competent authorities cannot access required documents for verification because of differences in IT systems, those documents shall be printed out and certified as genuine by the authority competent for the management of those IT systems (‘the issuing authority’) or by an authority competent for certifying documents as genuine copies. Such print-outs may be replaced by an electronic message between the issuing authority and the beneficiary or the competent authority, on condition that the issuing authority provides in an officially approved certification protocol ensuring the genuineness of the message.