Translation of "Zertifizierungsdiensteanbieter" in English

The clarification is necessary for the certification services.

In the context of this Directive these third-parties are called certification service providers.

A certification service provider may offer a wide range of services.

Voluntary accreditation schemes for certification of service providers are considered to be useful.

A certification service provider (CSP) is an issuer of certificates and the respective services.

This certificate is issued to service providers who sign an individual provision agreement with a certification service provider.

We do have liability rules for providers of certification services.

The certification-service-provider shall not be liable for damage resulting from this maximum limit being exceeded.

Thirdly, it has to be questioned whether a CSP would be able to ensure that it is not subjected to any form of administrative control.

This committee will be consulted on the requirements for service providers and on acceptable standards for the creation of electronic signatures.

On the basis of the proposal CSP will in particular be liable for the validity of a certificate’s content.

In the context of digital signatures these third parties are called "certification service providers".

It is based on a dual concept: CSP are in general free to offer their services without prior authorisation.

There are also other standards which must be observed by certification service providers as issuers of qualified certificates.

In my view there is a small problem, but otherwise this Annex III does not affect the basic rationale of the directive: completely free market access for all providers of certification services and guaranteed protection of consumers' privacy within reasonable levels of data protection, including scope for the use of pseudonyms and incorporation of the principal rules governing liability.

Commission Decision 2010/425/EU of 28 July 2010 amending Decision 2009/767/EC as regards the establishment, maintenance and publication of trusted lists of certification service providers supervised/accredited by Member States [2] is to be incorporated into the Agreement,

It is high time that through the adoption of uniform provisions, both for certification services providers and for consumers, consistency of law is achieved, so that - as is the case when credit cards are used - they will then know exactly to what extent there is a risk of them being threatened with liability.

A certification service provider shall bear the legal consequences of its failure to satisfy the requirements of paragraph 1.

Member States may not limit the number of accredited certification-service-providers for reasons which fall within the scope of this Directive.

Therefore, the body, its executive officer and the staff responsible for carrying out the conformance assessment tasks must not be a designer, manufacturer, supplier or installer of secure signature-creation-devices, or a certification service provider issuing certificates to the public, nor the authorised representative of any of such parties.

The certification-service-provider shall not be liable for damage arising from use of a qualified certificate which exceeds the limitations placed on it.

By second quarter 2009: the Commission will compile a “Trusted List of Supervised Qualified Certification Service Providers” at European level.

The Committee shall be consulted, where necessary, on the requirements for certification service providers laid down in Annex II and on generally recognised standards for electronic signature products according to Article 3 (3).

The Parliament proposes to add an additional sentence stating that CSP are allowed to indicate in a certificate a pseudonym provided that this is permitted by national legislation in non-electronic commercial relations (amendment 26).