Table of Contents

Intellectual Property Rights
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions and abbreviations
  3.1 Definitions
  3.2 Abbreviations
4 General concepts
  4.1 Certification authority
  4.2 Certification services
  4.3 Certificate policy and certification practice statement
  4.4 Subscriber and Subject
5 Introduction to qualified certificate policies
  5.1 Overview
  5.2 Identification
  5.3 User Community and applicability
  5.4 Conformance
6 Obligations and liability
  6.1 Certification authority obligations
  6.2 Subscriber obligations
  6.3 Information for relying parties
  6.4 Liability
7 Requirements on CA practice
  7.1 Certification Practice Statement (CPS)
  7.2 Public key infrastructure - Key management life cycle
  7.3 Public key infrastructure - Certificate Management life cycle
  7.4 CA management and operation
  7.5 Organizational
8 Framework for the definition of other qualified
  certificate policies
  8.1 Qualified certificate policy management
  8.2 Exclusions for non public QCPs
  8.3 Additional requirements
  8.4 Conformance
Annex A (informative): Potential liability in the use of
        electronic signatures
Annex B (informative): Model PKI disclosure statement
      B.1 Introduction
      B.2 The PDS structure
Annex C (informative): Electronic signature Directive and
        qualified certificate policy cross-reference
Annex D (informative): IETF RFC 3647/RFC 2527 and qualified
        certificate policy cross-reference
Annex E (informative): Revisions made since version 1.2.1
      E.1 Additional Requirements
      E.2 Update Requirements
      E.3 Clarifications
      E.4 Editorial
      E.5 Revisions made since 1.3.1
Annex F (informative): Bibliography
History

Abstract

Describes policy requirements relating to Certification Authorities (CAs) issuing qualified certificates (termed certification-service-providers issuing qualified certificates in the Directive).

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Pages
ISBN
Committee	ESI